A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Obsolete,) Obselet, Obsolute, Absolet, -ut, a. [e.m.E. obsolete (1579), -et, L. obsolēt-us. Certain of the forms appar. arise by confusion with Absolute a.: cf. also e.m.E. absoluteness (1612) = obsoletenesse (1613).] Obsolete, in disuse.(a) 1614 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 206.
There be some olde and obsolute lawes which are now of no force 1661 Haddington B. Rec. (Robb) 15 Apr.
Of purpose to have that race again broucht in use qche hes bein obselet throw the iniquitie of these bygane yeirs(b) 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. ii. xiv. § vi. (1678) 428.
This office [of heritable coroner] is absolet now except at justice airs 1689 Acts XII. 61/2.
Old and absolut lawes
