A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1649
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]
Prosodie, n. (e.m.E. and late ME prosodye (c 1450), -y, -ie, that part of the study of language which deals with the forms of metrical composition, including the study of pronunciation of words, also (1616) correct pronunciation of words.) —1649 Elgin Rec. II 433.
The master sall … heare the supreame classe recognosceing first the expositione off ther precepts either in prosodie, ortographie or rhetorick
