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Quotation dates: 1682
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(Of-,) Offcomeing, vbl. n. = Ofcom n. b. — 1682 Red Bk. Grandtully II. 257.
But Sir John is to have six thousand merks upon the account of a band of aliment instructed … by the witnesses adduced by him, which is but a pitifull and beggarly offcomeing on his part, who pretends to be a gentleman
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