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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1564-1565, 1691-1693
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Qualifying, Qual(l)ifeing, vbl. n. [e.m.E. qualifying (1574) modifying, mitigating.] a. Substantiating (a plea) (Qualify v. 1 b). b. Equipping (oneself) with the qualifications or accomplishments requisite for a function (Qualify v. 5, Qualifyit ppl. adj. 1). — 1564–5 Perth B. Ct. 236 (6 Feb.).
& protestit for ane eik and sufficient copy of the ansris for qualifeing thairof 1691 Writers Signet lxiv.
He hath had good breeding for qualifying him to excerce the trust of a nottar-publick 1693 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXVI 34.
The Commissioners having enquyred anent the reason of John Sharp the clerk his not officiating, they find that it is by on the accompt of not quallifeing himself in the statione
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