A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1618-1627
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Recens(e, v. [e.m.E. recense (1597), F. recenser, L. recensēre.] tr. To review or survey. Only in Conv. Burghs (1618–24). —1618 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III 56.
The saids commissioners of borrowis recensing the hurt sustenit … for remeid thairof … they of new ratifie and approve [etc.] 1618 Ib. 69.
The saids commissioners of borrowis, finding and recensing the grit confusioun … for remeid quhairof it is statut [etc.] 1621 Ib. 121. 1627 Ib. 241.
