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: 1566-1616
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Misconceit, n. Also: misconceytte. [e.m.E. (1576).] A false notion, misconception. —1566 Cal. Sc. P. II. 300.
Yet she has no misconceit of your devotion to her 1616 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 225.
I have hearde nothing that might move me to have the least misconceytte of anything you have done
