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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1551-1606, 1657-1674
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Satisfying, Satisfeing, Satifieing, -feing, vbl. n. Also: satyfeyne, satefeing. [e.m.E. satisfiynge (1560), satisfying (1647); Satisfy v.] The action of Satisfy v., in senses 1–4.(1) 1569–70 Canongate Ct. Bk. 143.
For satisfeing of Alexander Brog barbour for mending of the said Alexander heid 1579 Inverness Rec. I 272.
For satifeing of the baillies for hir vnlaw 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X 200.
For decorment of the streit and satifieing [pr. satisieing] of the wholle heretores concerned(b) 1574 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I 28.
Satefeing of Nicolas Vddart of his thousand merkis debursit [etc.](2) 1606 Melrose Reg. Rec. I 8.
For payment of the bluids and satisfeing of the parte efter tryall 1606 Ib. 9.
For satisfeing of the kirk the bluid to the baillie and the parte(3) a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 296.
If the sinners had been actually put-at for satisfying in their own persons(4) 1551 Corr. M. Lorraine 352.
For satyfeyne of gret men, sic as my lord Angus [etc.] 1567 Anderson Collect. Mary I 91.
For satisfeing of thame that mycht not abyde his avancement
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