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: 1566-1603
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Ingraif, v. Also: ingrafe. [Var. of Ingrave v.1] tr. To engrave, lit. and fig. — a1568 Scott i. 214.
Resaif … and haif, ingraif it heir 1566 Acts (ed. 1566) To Reader iii.
The Romanis … had thair statutis … ingraifit or writtin in tabillis 1596 Dalr. I. 142/12.
To ingrafe and poure in the hartis of the ignorant people diuine rites … and the knawlege of ane only God 1603 Philotus lxii.
I sall … Ȝour presence haue as in my hart ingraifit
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