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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1535, 1606
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Rangat, n. [Sc. var. of Rangail(l n., with altered ending.] a. Disorder, commotion, noise. = Rangail(l n. 3. b. The multitude, the rabble. = Rangail(l n. 2. —a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (O.U.P.) 119/30.
Gud rewle is banist … And rangat ringis but ony ordour, With reird of rebaldis, and of swane 1535 Stewart 31807.
Ane hundreth horssmen, but rangat or noy, Tha send with thame 1535 Ib. 52222.
Tha tuke the gait without rangat till go —b. 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xiii.
They … long held their abbay burials royall and onely for kinges, … yet in end they were for pryce exposed to the rangat
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