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: 1400-1499
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(Plaintif,) Playntife, Plantif, a. [ME. pleintif (1390), plentyff, OF. plain-, pleintif masc.] Complaining to a court of law. —1429–30 Acts II. 19/2.
That the party playntife mak prufe … of the violent presumpcion … be his athe 14.. Quoniam Attachiamenta c. 2.
To stand & byde the law at the soyt of his party on him plantif
