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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Model, v. Also: modell, moddel(l, modl-. [e.m.E. model(l (1604), F. modeler.] tr. a. To frame, fashion, devise, design, plan, organise. b. To organise (a military body or the like); to enrol (men) into an organised, chiefly a military, body. c. ? To order, control, rule. —a. 1673 Laing MSS. I. 392.
Had this change bin either a litle lower modeld at first or [etc.] … it might … have attained … settlement 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 122.
I saw a decreet … anent the regulation of victuall in its price … and the town of Invernes moddeld their prices conforme —b. (1) 1657 Balfour Ann. IV. 243.
Suche gentlemen, … and others, quho wants imployment, and cannot be modeled in the present lewey 16.. Herries Mem. 71.
[In 1564] four thousand of the ablest men were pickt out and modled in an armie 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. ii. xvi. § 2 (1699) 215. 1688 Rothesay B. Rec. 456.
To modell outreik and raise and keip in armes alse many of the inhabitantes as … they shall think fitt(2) 1667 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II. 268.
Wee … requyre yow with all possible diligence to modell a militia of horse and foot … , which modell yow are to offer to us … for our approbation 1685 Elgin Rec. I. 338.
To meit this efternoone for modelling the gaird nightlie —c. 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 41.
The Clan Torkil in Lewis were … a wicked bloody crew whom neither law nor reason could guid or moddell
