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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1600-1652
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Neoteri(c)k, a. and n. Also: neotorik. [e.m.E. (1596) neoteric(k, -ique, L. neōtericus, Gr. νεωτερικός.] a. adj. Recent, new, modern. b. n. A modern, a modernist.a. 1609 Craig iii. 3/18.
Some [Corinthians] taught & trained the neoterick sogers 1652 Urquhart Jewel in Wks. (1834) 218.
Declining from that neoterick faith … as he waxed in experience of the worldb. 1600-1610 Melvill 485.
Of thir and the lyk places the ancients and neotoriks are full and cleir 1638 Baillie I. 149.
The Englishe method of studie to our youth … to close with Protestant neotericks
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