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: 1562, 1653
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Ligament, Legement, n. [e.m.E. and late ME. ligament (c 1400), L. ligāmentum.] a. A ligament of the body. b. fig. A tie, bond of union. —1562 Digest Justiciary Proc. D. 47.
Throw the cutting of the musculis, tendentis and legementis of his solle of his said left fut 1653 H. Binning Wks. 290.
That which is the true bond and ligament of men … is … the love of God
