A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1456, 1554
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Cronik, -yk, n. [ME. cronike, -yke, -ique (Chaucer), OF. cronique, med. L. cronica. Cf. Chronik.] A chronicle. —1456 Hay I. 216/34.
Quha will behald … the stories and cronykis of thai tymes 1456 Ib. II. 104/1.
Bath cronykis and histories 1554 Misc. Bann. C. III. 70.
Autentike cronikis and approbat 1554 Ib. 73.
Cronikis in Latine and Norwege tong