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: 1638-1671
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Laity, -ie, Layettie, n. [e.m.E. laitie (1541), laytie, layetie.] The laity. —1638 Hamilton P. (Camden Soc.) 25.
Differenses betwixt the ministers and layettie about the choyseng of the Commissioners for the assemblie 1639 Fugitive Poetry II. xvi. 5.
Such tenetts I could never blesse In clergie men nor laitie 1666–71 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 351.
St Cyprian … advised more with the Church (I mean the laitie) than is now done
