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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Select, adj. [e.m.E. selecte (1565), L. sēlect- p.p. of sēligere.] Selected in preference to others, chosen. —1576–7 Reg. Privy S. VII 121/2, 122/1.
[Licence … to print] certane select workis of Cicero, Virgill, Terence, Ovide, Horace … ane onomastik, certane select sentences, [etc.] 16… R. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 398.
The first action they did wes to draw out a select number of eight persons from the whole number of every Estate who wer called the Lords of the Articles
