We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

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: 1657-1658

[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]

Protracting, vbl. n. [e.m.E. protract v. to extend (time), also to extend in space (Smollett, 1749; a1850).] Extending in space. —a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. (1680) 31.
Concerning Christs body on earth, or ubiquitie of his humanitie, or bodily presence with his churches, or for protracting of his body

31911

dost