A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1632-1633
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Irreducible, a. [e.m.E. (1633), in a different sense.] Not reducible, not admitting of being reduced or legally rescinded. —a1633 Hope Major Pract. II. 138.
The lords fund ane decreet of improbation irreducible … and that no adminicle of improbation was taken away
