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: 1549-1584
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Extinct, v. [Late ME. extyncte (1483), e.m.E. extinct, L. extinct-, extinguere.] tr. To extinguish, obliterate. —1549 Complaynte of Scotland 26/30, etc.
I suspect that his iustice sal extinct oure generatione furtht of rememorance 1569 Reg. Privy C. II. 10.
That ather of the saidis partiis … sall forgif, bury, extinct and forgett all maner of slauchteris … committit be thame 1584 Acts III. 333/1.
It is our will that ȝe extinct and deleit furth of the said summondis the saidis [persons]
