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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: 1558-1566

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Modificatour, n. [L. modificātor.] = Modifiar n. —1558-66 Knox II. 311.
So … circumspect war the modificatouris (because it was a new office, the terme must also be new) that the ministeris should nott be ower wantoun, that ane hundreth markis was sufficient to a singill man

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