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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: 1420, 1490, 1577-1578

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Enschew, v.1 Also: onschew. [Var. of Eschew v.] tr. To avoid. —c1420 Ratis Raving 297.
That wice is far abowe wertew: For-thi it is for till enschew
c1420 Ib. 871.
Gyf thow … can nocht weill enschew perell
1490 Irland Mir. I. 26/27.
Thou suld be … liberale, curtas, meik, … enschewand all filth of syn
a1578 Pitsc. II. 95/2 (I).
[Ȝeit they concludit that on no vayis fight witht Scotland gif they might] onschew [the same]

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