A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1588
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Dissimilatioun, -simulatioun, n. Also: dissymbelatyown, -symelacyoun, -simelacioune; -similatione; -symulacioun, -acione. [ME. dissymulacion (Chaucer), -symylacion, etc., OF. dissimulation, L. dissimulātio.] Dissimulation, dissembling.(a) c1420 Wynt. viii. 1787.
Wndyr dissymbelatyown Bath tent thai tuk wp and pawillown 1456 Hay I. 275/7.
Sen it plesis thaim, the best is to lat it pas throu dissimilacioun c1460 Thewis Wysmen 143.
Thai mak na dissimelacioune, Quhar caus is of pwniscioune 1471 Buccleuch Mun. II. 71.
Dauid Scot and his sone bindis and oblisis thaim that thai sall, … withoute dissymelacyoun, mynister to the office of balȝery a1500 Bk. Chess 103.
Woide he was of all dissimilacioun Vnto the king 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 111/15.
Be this dissimilatione … he conquest the said toune(b) c1420 Ratis Raving 871.
Gyf thow be rud, and nocht subtyll, Na can nocht … mak dissymulacione 1533 Boece v. vi. 175 b.
Sum Britan noblis in sobir arrayment … ffynalie revelit thare dissymulacioun 1562-3 Winȝet I. 68/31.
That, quhilk ȝe … in dissimulatioun ascriuis to the name of Papistrie 1588 King Catechism 140.
Be ouer mekle dissimulatioun and indulgence in bringing vp thay mar thame quha ar committit to thair chairge
