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: 1605-1626
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(Rewinit,) Rwynit, ppl. adj. Also: reywind; rowined. [e.m.E. ruined (1585); Rewine v.] Reduced to ruins; fallen to ruin. —1605 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts II 119.
The richt and title of the rwynit and decayit hospitall 1622 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 146.
The maister of wark … did considder the haill rowined and decayed pairtis thairof 1622-6 Bisset II 433/7.
This charter house is … allutterly decayed now and reywind
