A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Preterplusquamperfect, adj. [Cf. late L. praeteritum plusquamperfectum (Priscian), e.m.E. preterplusperfit (1530), -perfect, Plusquamperfect adj. and Preter(e adj.] In grammar: Pluperfect. —16.. Rudiments fol. 12 a.
The bygone more than perfyt preterplusquamperfect time is never read unlesse subjoined except set under or to the imperfect time or the perfect; in respect quhairof it doeth choose this name
