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: 1398-1434
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Contremandment, n. [F. contremandment. Cf. Contramandment and e.m.E. countremaundement (1560).] A counter order. —1398 Acts I. 211/1.
At the king be obliste that he sal nocht lette his office … be na contremandmentis 1398 Ib.
Na the forsaid lieutenant be nocht haldyn to ansuer suylke contremandmentis 1434 Exchequer Rolls IV. 567.
We charge yhu … that yhe content and pay … quhil yhe have contremandment of us
