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: 1640-1694
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(Pactioun,) Paction, v. [f. Pactioun,n.: cf. F. pactioner, pactionner (14th c.). Only Sc.] a. tr. To agree (to do something); to agree to or accept (a condition). b. To stipulate that something be done. c. intr. To make an agreement or bargain (with another) (for something). —a. 1640 R. Baillie Canterbury Self-convicted Postscr. 8.
The King of Scotland is obliged at his coronation to paction under his great oath the preservation of the established religion 1681 Fountainhall Decis. I. 125.
He never pactioned to give any benefit of it [the estate] to his father —b. 1678 Justiciary Rec. II. 317.
The pannel … replyed that … he expresly pactioned that this confession should not operate against him —c. 1672 Justiciary Rec. II. 66.
He … pactioned for … more than the ordinary a[nnual] rent yearly 1680 Dunkeld Presb. II. 132.
That the heritours … had pactiond with the workmen for the building and reparation theroff 1694 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. IV. 186.
This was … to paction for and receive a bribe to pass from his accusation
