A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1528-1533
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Origine, Origioun, n. [Late ME. origyne (15th c.), e.m.E. orīgin (1563), F. origine (1512 in Hatz.-Darm.), L. orīgo, origin-is.] Origin: beginning; parentage, descent; to have origin, to originate (in a certain district). = Original(l n. —1528–9 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXXIX. 158.
[That the King and his progenitors have held the realm] fre imperiale fra the first origioun 1533 Boece ii. xi. 79.
Vthir persouns of obscure origine 1533 Ib. ix. xix. 338 b.
Bede … quhare euer he had origine or in quhat cuntre he closit the lattir houre [etc.]
