A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Recompensing, -pencing, -pansing, vbl. n. [Late ME (1450) and e.m.E. recompensyng, -pencing(e, Recompens v.] The action of making compensation, in various senses of Recompens v. —a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 46.
Se sone thow mak my commissar amendis … Meikly in recompansing of thi scorne Ib. 503.
Louse thy hose, That I may touch thy tone wyth tribulation, In recompensing of thy conspiratioun 1570–1 Canongate Ct. Bk. 319.
Ordanit Cristian Michelsoun to content and pay to Jonet Thomsoun … saxtene schillingis … for ane franche ryall deliverit be hir to the said Cristian to have chaingit … quhairof thair wes na recompansing as yit a1634 Forbes Rec. 545.
The Earle of Dumbar, both to disburden himself and [for] recompencing of the chanceler did [etc.]
