A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Retreting, -treit(t)ing, vbl. n. Also: retrett-. [Retret(e v.1] The action of revoking, in sense 1 of Retret(e v.11488 Acta Conc. I 114/1.
Tuiching the retretting of ane act and decrett gevin apoun the said Robert 1498 Ib. II 182.
Anent the retreting of the decretis and letteres past in the sade mater 1501 Stirling Chart. 57.
Our souerane lordis letteris of summondis for the retreting of the saide act 1518–19 Acta Conc. in Fife Sheriff Ct. 297.
Summondis of errour for the retreting of the said processe 1556 Wemyss Chart. 186.
For retreting or annulling of the sentence of deworce pronuncit … aganis hir 1565 Edinb. Univ. MS La. iii 388a fol. 27b.
The reductione and retreitting of sentences … to be persewit be libellat sumondis 1589 Reg. Privy C. IV 388.
Divers utheris personis … hes obtenit certane pretendit retreitingis of the saidis sentenceis —1532 Instit. Ct. Sess. in Acts Sederunt i 3.
Retretting of rolmentis of courtis led before shereffis, baronis or baillies
