A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Remembrancer, n. [Late ME and e.m.E. remembrauncer, -ancer, an official (1430–1), one who reminds another (1523), a memento (1589), a reminder of something (1682), etc., AF remembrancer.] A reminder (of something). —c1610 Melville Mem. (1683) 286.
I had indited a long letter … as a remembrancer [MS remembrance] of his former promises
