A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1549-1563, 1619
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Diction, -one, -oun, n. [e.m.E. diction (1542), L. dictio.] a. A word. b. Choice or use of words. —1549 Complaynte of Scotland 17/4.
Mony vordis … as auguris, auspices, … and mony vthir romane dictions 1562-3 Winȝet I. 60/34.
As to the phrase and dictioun heirof, guid it war to remember [etc.] 1619 Garden Elphinstoun 431.
With a dictione delegat, All theorems of law … he did explane
