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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: 1602, 1673

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Mitigating, vbl. n. Also: mittigating. [e.m.E. (a 1683).] a. Pacifying, mollifying (a person or his mind). b. Abating, reducing (a charge). —1602 Misc. Spald. C. II. 290.
In hoip God vill assist ws, be mitigating off baith your lordschips myndis touardis … ws
1673 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS. 17 Jan.
The modifieing and mittigating of ten pundis Scots quhilk was appoynted to be payed be him quarterlie

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