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: 1569-1586
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Propagat, -pogat, v. [e.m.E. propagate (1570), f p.p. stem of L. prō-, propāgāre.] tr. a. To reproduce, procreate. b. To spread (the gospel); to diffuse. —a. a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS clxx 141.
And propagat sa ȝour posteritie Frome sone to sone as he did Sarais seid —b. 1571 Bann. Memor. 169.
That the evangle, sinceirlie preiched, may have cours and be propogat
