A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1550-1580
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Precisione, n. [16th c. F. précision, L. præcīsio, e.m.E. precision (1640).] Cutting off, cutting short. —c1550-c1580 Art of Music 27.
Diminucioun … is a precisione of the mid part in mesur not[h]ing discrepant fro semidit