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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: 1550-1580

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Rectitud, n. [e.m.E. and late ME rectitude (a1450), F. rectitude, late L. rectitūdo.] The state of going straight up and down (as opposed to obliquely). —c1550-c1580 Art of Music 2.
Ornitoparcus … dois vrit that a ligatur is of principall figuris ane condependens eftir the tracth vp or doun in rectitud or obliquit

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