A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1550-1580
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Pristine, -yne, adj. [e.m.E. (1534), L. pristin-us former, previous, early, original, primitive, OF pristin.] Original, previous, former. —1569 Reg. Privy C. II 10.
Willing to reduce the saidis partiis to thair pristine amytie c1550-c1580 Art of Music 32.
Follow the lark, quhilk with hir sang fro the erth to the meid speir dois ascend, fro hyne furth scho revertent … to the pristyne place dois descend
