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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1522-1666
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Selit, ppl. adj. Also: seild, seillat, sealit, -ed, seallit. [ME and e.m.E. i)seeled (a1225), seled (Chaucer), selid (a1450), sealed (c1511), sealyd (1522); Sele v.] Sealed, in various senses of Sele v. a. fig. Confirmed or ratified as if with a seal. Cf. Sele v. 1 c.1637 Rutherford Lett. (1664) 111.
Concluded and sealed Salvation may goe through and be ended
b. Of weights and measures: Marked with an official seal as a guarantee of accuracy or correctness.1522–3 Old Dundee II 224.
The council ordainit that there sall be ane sealit firlot and ane sealit peck in ilk ane of the common mills 1551 Elgin Rec. I 111.
That na persoun sell ayill bot with ane selit quart 1599–1600 Misc. Spald. C. V 126.
Gevin, at command of the counsall, for ane seallit firlott of Leyth, 4 lib. 1625 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II 315.
Ane new seillat peck … price xxxvij s.
c. Fastened, closed, by means of one or more seals.1562-3 Winȝet II 23.
For that selit prophetical buik … nocht the archangelis durst oppin 1666 Oliphants xxxiii.
Their names thus exprest and set down painted in one of the seild rooms in Duppline, now demolished
d. Marked in sense 4 of Sele v.a1605 Montg. Flyt. 101 (see Sele v. 4).
