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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1630-1675
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(Sekin,) Seikn-, Sikn-, v. [ME secn- (Orm), sikn- (c1290), seeken, sikyn (both Wyclif); e.m.E. sekene (Malory), sekyn, sycken (both 1530), sicken (1568); Sek(e adj.] intr. To sicken, fall sick, become ill. — 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 125.
Esme [Stuart] … seikned at Paris, wher he died the 23 day of May 1583 yeirs ?c1675 J. Gordon Hist. III 14.
[The army were] many of them sikning and ill provyded of entertanement
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