A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1577-1641
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Conque(i)ser, -quieser, n. Also: -queisor. [f. Conqueis,v.] An acquirer; a conqueror. —a1578 Pitsc. I. 392/2.
He was ever … ane conqueser of wther mens herietagis quhither he had richt or nocht 1600 Elphinstone Mem. 142.
The said vmquhill Robert Aytoun, conqueser and last fear 1641 Baillie I. 323.
Power to the first conqueisors to impose lawes was not doubtful
