A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1581, 1661-1700+
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Hostie, Hosty, n. [Late ME. hostye (1483), a sacrifice, F. hostie. Cf. Hoastie.] = Host n.4 b. (In this sense appar. chiefly or only Sc.) —1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 95.
Thair is euer ane oblation, becaus thair is ane hostie, and ane bodie 1581 Ib. 346.
The halie hostie … is gewin … to the people, to be thair spiritual fuid ?1661 R. Baillie Parall. Liturgy 51.
Papists injoyne all the relickes of the hostie and wine … to be gathered together 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 11.
If they kneel not at the coming by of the hosty or sacrament 1682 Id. Observes 64.
The French King … is to discharge the carrieng the hostie in procession a 1715 Burnet Hist. Own Time (1766) I. 11.
Some of his seamen went ashore and met the hostie carried about
