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: 1633-1690
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Program, -grame, n. [L. programma. Cf. 19th c. Eng. programme, -gram, also 17th c. Eng. programma.] Only Sc.: A public notice or advertisement, esp. one inviting applications for a teaching post in a university. —1633 W. Struther True Happiness 38.
The beginning of his discourse … is like a program affixed on the entrie of a citie c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 20.
His classe vakeing a publik dispute was indicted be program c1646 Ib. 31.
In … 1610 … programs was set forth to invite such as aimed at the profession of philosophie to give their names for tryall c1646 Ib. 21. 1682 Sc. Ant. XVI 4.
[They] ordained … Mr. James Younge … to supplie the supposed vacancie … without affixing any previous programe or using any examinatione to appoint [him] 1690 Comm. Univ. I (Edinb.) App. 37.
No regent … [is to] be … received in any university … without ane previous tryall and program to be affixt upon the gates … inviteing all persones to be present and dispute for the place
