A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1513-1586
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(Monessing,) Monis(s)ing, -ys(s)ing, -yng, vbl. n. [Late ME. monysshyng (c 1440).] a. Admonishing, urging, exhortation; warning; reproof. Also plur. b. Judicial admonition or warning.a. 1533 Bell. Livy I. 190/25.
Nowthir mycht the prayer or monysing of Amulius kepe his folkis togiddir a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitland Folio MS xxx. 80.
Trew monising dois mak inimitieplur. 1513 Doug. iv. viii. 115.
The feirful sawis seyr Of the dyvynys with terribil monysyngis Affrayt hir by mony grysly syngis 1513 Ib. viii. vi. 51.b. 1555 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I. 60.
And attore dischargis … Williaine Bischop of Dunblane … of all asking cravyng monyssing and ledyng of proces quhatsumever aganis the saidis personis
