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: 1490-1551
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Immolatioun, -acioun(e, n. [e.m.E. immolacion (1534), L. immolātio.] Immolation, sacrificial slaughter, sacrifice. —1490 Irland Mir. I. 52/17.
The fader of hevin tempit Abrahame of his obediens in the immolacioune of his sone Ysac 1531 Bell. Boece II. 420.
Erar to suffer the immolatioun and murdir of his sonnis than to commit sa manifest treason 1533 Id. Livy I. 99/11.
The prophecy concernyng the immolacioun and sacrifice of this fatall kow 1551 Hamilton Catechism 202.
The immolatioun and sacrifice of the paschal lambe
