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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, 1375-1499

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Mortancestor, n. Also: -ancester, -ansister, -ancessour. [Med. L. mors antecessor-is, AF. mordancestre, mort d'auncestre, e.m.E. mortauncestor (1540), -aunceter (1523), mortdauncestour (1543), etc. Only early in Sc.] = Mortancestry n.

Also plur., as also in med. L. (breve de) morteantecessorum (1437 Cal. Charters Suppl. 28 Nov.).1318( Statut. Robt. I in) Acts I. 111/2.
And rycht sa in the breif of mortancester [L. in brevi de morte antecessoris] na ȝit in the breif of new disseysing the tenand [etc.]
14.. Regiam Majestatem c. 128.
That tharof be nocht tane recognicone of mortancestor
14.. Ib. c. 172.
That breffis of mortancestor & of new dissessing neuermar salbe impledyt be chalance of the party askand bot allanerly be ane assise of the contre
14.. Ib.
How the breffis of mortancessour sal be mot & new dissesyng
1429–30 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXIX. 5.
Thar sal na bref of mortansister pas fra the Kyngis chapyl bot in maner and fwrm as his ordanit in Robert the Browysis statutis that is to say of lineale successioune and nocht of taylȝe
plur. 14.. Regiam Majestatem c. 3.
The breff of recognicioune of mortancestris & of new dissessyng

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