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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Latany, -ony, -yny, -ie, -iné, n. [e.m.E. latyny (1525), -iny: cf. Letanie.] A litany. —1533 Boece ix. xiii. 319.
Quhill Aidane ȝit liffit, the solempnit processiouns callit the grete latynie to expell the violent pest … war institute
1535 Stewart 22014.
On the auchtane da The sevin psalmis … to sing and reid, With latony, placebo, and the creid
a1538 Abell 49 b.
Paip Gregoir … institut the latines
1551 Hamilton Cat. 279.
Thow suld thairfor pray asthe kirk prayis, quhilk in the latanyes prayis to God the father, the sonne, and the haly spreit
Arundel MS. 204.
Heir begynnis the Goldin Latyny

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