A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1456, 1629
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Quotacioun, -tioun, n. [Med. L. quotatio numeration, reckoning (c1380), e.m.E. quotacion a marginal reference (1532), quotation in sense b (1646), obs. F. quottation (Godef.).] a. A numbering, number (of the chapter headings of a book). b. A passage cited out of (a writing), a quotation with its reference. — 1456 Hay I 100/11.
Here efter folowis the chapitris of the ferde buke efter the quotaciouns of the rubricis etc. 1629 Justiciary Cases I 133.
And for the quotatioun out of the decrete it will only prove this, that [etc.]
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