A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1537-1600
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Occidental(l, -aill, a. (n.). [ME. occidentale (Chaucer), e.m.E. occidental(l, F. occidental (14th c.), L. occidentālis.] a. adj. Situated in or belonging to the western regions; having the characteristics of the western regions; western. b. Of a wind: Westerly. c. noun One belonging to western Christendom. —a. a1538 Abell 28 b.
This is the difference betwix the Grekis orientaill & the Latynis occidentaill 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 70.
Thair is mony thousandes quha imbracis the same in the Indes baith orientall and occidentall c1600 Medical Recipes 87 b.
Gemini … is dubill bodeit & occidentall that is of veist part and is of sangune complextioneb. 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 61/25.
The feyrd cardinal vynd is callit Fauonius or occidentalc. a1538 Abell 28 b.
The occidentales [as opposed to the clergy of the Greek church] ar nocht promowit [to holy orders] without promis of chastite
