A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1500-1568
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Meridian(e, a. and n. Also: merediane. [ME. and e.m.E. meridien, -ian, n. (a 1380), adj. (Chaucer), F. méridien, L. merīdiānus, f. merīdiēs, mid-day, noon, whence also Meridional(l,a. and n.] a. adj. Of mid-day, noontide. b. Meridian circle, ? speir, a meridian in astronomy or geography. Also absol. as n. c. Southern, meridional. —a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 70.
Aue Maria, … Haile sterne meridiane!b. (1) 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 47/15.
It sal declair the eleuatione of the polis and the lynis parallelis and the meridian circlis a1568 Bannatyne Bannatyne MS 230 b/1.
As Phebus bricht in speir merediane … Passis the licht that cleipit is Dyane(2) 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 51/19.
Quhen the sune rysis at our est orizon, than it ascendis quhil it cum til our meridianc. 1531 Bell. Boece I. xv.
Quhen … Notus brim the wind meridiane With wingis donk and pennis full of rane
