A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1584-1650
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Sicophant, Sycophant, n. [e.m.E. scicophant (a1548), sicophant (1561), F. sicophant (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), L. sȳcophanta, f. the Gk.] A sycophant; one given to servile flattery. — a1585 Maitland Quarto MS 257/18.
For Sicophant for simple saull for sott 1600-1610 Melvill 148.
To schaw whow craftelie and malitiuslie that sycophant calumniattes the Ordour and Conclusionnes of Discipline a1650 Row 273.
Mr. George Gladstanes (a verie court sycophant)
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