A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Decart(e, Decairt, v. [obs. F. descarter, f. carte a card.] tr. To set aside; to discard.In the first quot. with reference to card-playing.1558-66 Knox I. 262.
The articles of his beleve war: ‘I referr: decarte yow’ a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxxii. 87.
Ȝour vter ansueir courteously I crave, Quhom ȝe will keep, or vhom ȝe will decairt 1618 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 49.
Thou shalt bee gone, and I must be decarted 1623 Craig iv. 15/20.
Who seem'd so sure as hee, … Yet vnawares decourted and decarted 1641 Baillie I. 303.
He hes such a hand among the ministrie, and others, that it was not thought meet to decairt him
