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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1475, 1533
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Maister, Mastir, n.2 Also: maistir, mayster. [Appar. formed either by analysis of Maistrice n. as a plur. or by reanalysis of a plur. of Maistry n. The plur. examples cited first here might equally be regarded as representing one or other of these.] = Maistry n., Maistrice n. —plur. c1420 Wynt. i. 1460.
To clym wpe to the ayre quhen thai Swylk maysterys [C. mastres, W. mastre] lykyd till assay ?1438 Alex. ii. 5250.
I am nane of tha That may sik michty maisteris ma —sing. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 5.
The Scottis marweld, and pes tane in the land, Quhy Inglismen sic maistir [1570, maistrie] tuk on hand c1475 Ib. ix. 530.
On Sotheron men full mekill maister [1570, maistry] thai wrocht c1475 Ib. vii. 1284, ix. 1849, xi. 870. 1533 Bell. Livy II. 55/3 (Adv. MS.).
The consullis … has na maister nor pussance bot onelie it that was afore with kingis
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