A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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(Maintenit,) Manteaned, ppl. a. ? Materially or financially supported, supplied, subsidised (Maintene v. 7). —1571 Cal. Sc. P. III. 667.
[Unless I find her majesty … supporting me … to maintain my force of waged men for a time against the] manteaned adversairy
