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: 1569-1582
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Distellatioun, Destel-, n. [Var. of Distillatioun.] A defluxion. —a 1570 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 652/1.
The des[t]elatioun that fell out of hir heid to hir lychtis 1582 Coll. Aberd. & B. 353.
Ane … diseais in his ene proceiding be ane distellatioun out of the heid
