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: 1558-1597
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Ineptitude, n. [e.m.E. (1615). L. ineptitūdo.] Unfittingness. —1558 Admir. Ct. Bk. (Stair Soc.) 76.
As tuiching the ineptitude the said allegeance suld be repellit1561 Misc. Maitl. C. II. 287.
That the samin [accusation] is manifest inept and ane ineptitude may be proponit in ony tyme afoir the pronuncing of the sentence1597 Acts. IV. 126/1.
Thay wald haue elidit and stayit the samyn … in respect of the generalitie and ineptitude thairof
