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: 1456, 1563-1600
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Experiment, v. [Late ME. (1481), OF. experimenter, med. L. experimentari.] tr. To experience. —1456 Hay II. 103/29.
Thou has provit and experimentit mony mervalous and evell thingis 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 31.
Scho wald not abandoun him to thair vnmercifull mercy experimentit alreddy in his fader 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 427.
Scotland experimentis this, throw the great vsuries quhilk thir … ministers committis
