A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Predicioun, misread for, or var. with altered prefix of, Perditio(u)n n. 1 (ruin). —1456 Hay I 244/19.
Till a wis man all the lettres of asseurance and sauf conditis of the warld is nathing in comparisoun of his predicioun the quhilk puttis lyf land and honour in were for a lettre of paper
