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: 1535-1552, 1610, 1680
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Construct, -struck, v. [L. construct-, ppl. stem of construere. Also e.m.E. (1663), but not common before 18th c.]
1. tr. To construct, build up.1535 Stewart 19430.
Mony nycht tha woik, For to construct this kinrik and this croun 1551 Reg. Cupar A. II. 71.
Our said place … being construckit and biggit … in maner forsaid 1552 Protocol Book of John Robeson 19 b.
Swa that he ma construct and big aisiamentis thairvpoun
2. tr. To construe, put a construction on.c1610 Melville Mem. (1735) 84.
Expressions which were constructed by the Queen of England as a violation of their former familiarity c1680 Row Blair 361.
This would be constructed by the king and others A homologating of the protestor's petition
