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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Custumit, -yt, ppl. a. [Var. of Customit.] Accustomed, usual.1415 Reg. Episc. Brechin I. 36.
The quhilk teind penny we will be allowit to ȝow in ȝour comptis, ȝeir by ȝeir as is custumit to be
1456 Hay I. 123/17.
But gif it war be the custume of the contreis, that the vassallis war sa custumyt
Ib. II. 6/4.
In the quhilk herbare the noble knycht was custumyt to mak his dayly repair
a1586 Lindsay MS. 7.
Thir are the wappinnis that ar custumit & vsit in singular battell

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