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: 1499-1500
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Distort, v. [L. distort-, ppl. stem of distorquēre; e.m.E. (c 1586).] tr. To turn aside. —a1500 Henr. III. 168/73.
This cair cotidiane We thé exhort, distort it in exyle


