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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1571-1610
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Distillatioun, -ion, n. [ME. distillacion (Gower) and e.m.E. (1527), OF. -ation, L. -ātio.] A defluxion. — 1571 Misc. Bann. C. III. 125.
A deflux and distillation [of] humours from my head 1600-1610 Melvill 433.
With … grait pean in body, be a distillatioun falling on my teithe
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