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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: 1375, 1520-1535

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Monesting, vbl. n. [ME. (1388) and e.m.E. cf. Monessing.] Calling to mind, admonition, injunction. —1375 Barb. iv. 533 (E).
We haiff thre thingis That makis us oft monestingis For to be worthi, wis and wycht … Ane is our lyffis sawfte [etc.]
1375 Ib. xx. 412.
Quhen he to thaim … Had maid a fayr monesting To do weill
c1520-c1535 Nisbet 2 Cor. viii. 17.
He resauet exhortatioun or monesting

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