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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Impugnar, -er(e, -or, n. Also: impungnar. [e.m.E. impugner (1539).] One who disputes or opposes (a doctrine, etc.), an impugner. —1562 Q. Kennedy Ressoning 15.
Swa are ȝe cled rather with the personage of ane impungnar nor ane defendar
1562-3 Winȝet II. 79/22.
Nestorius … , the auctor of noueltie and impugnar of antiquitie
1564 St. A. Kirk S. 195.
He had assistit the congregacion … aganis the inimeis impugnoris of the trewth
1583 Bk. Univ. Kirk II. 631.
Impugners of the trueth be word and wryte
1641 Acts V. 483/2.
That the professores of the gospell ar impugneres of goode warkes

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