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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1532-1578, 1640
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Imput(t)ing, vbl. n. [Imput v.3 Cf. Inputting.] Putting in, in senses of the verb. — 1532 Master of Works Accounts II. 29 b.
Spendit to the imputting of the grete bois windois & for imputting of crukis & bottis to the syling of the wallis a1578 Pitsc. I. 183/3.
Certane lordis … quho was the consallouris of the maist pairt of his imputing [= imprisonment] 1640 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 417.
That tua barnes be takine for the imputting of the tynd schaves of the aikers about this brugh
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