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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1666-1674
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Scithian, adj. [e.m.E. Scythian adj. (1567) of or pertaining to Scythia, the name given in ancient times to a large tract of southern Russia, earlier Scythyan n. (1543) a native of Scythia, f. L. Scythia.] Scythian, appar. with the implication ‘savage’, ‘barbaric’. — 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 486.
There happened in those louse times in the north a plague and scurge upon the country, one Patrick Roy M‘kgrigor, a vile Scithian rude outlaw
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