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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1475, 1533-1697
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Simulat(e, Symulate, ppl. adj. [L. simulāt-, p.p. of simulāre to simulate, feign; cf. Simule v.] Feigned, false; based on false premises, invalid.attrib. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace (1570) xi 1366.
Thy simulate wordis sall not my conscience smit 1533 Boece 270b.
Ane prophane man of symulate sanctitude 1583 Reg. Privy C. III 617.
Be simulat assignationes maid be the said James 1585 Acts III 414/1.
To annalie … the landis … be simulat and cullerit venditioun 1585 Misc. Bann. C. I 124.
Put to death apon simulat causis 1665 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II 122.
[The said Sir Alexander Fraser … ] did cause make a simulat act in the kirk session for demolishing their kirkstyle 1669 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 15.
Robert Smith … did in ane simulat and illusarie maner cause apprehend the said James Anderson a1676 Guthry Mem. 119.
This was the royalists sense of the simulat division betwixt the two marquisses of Hamilton and Argyle 1697 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. IV 371.
It was contended, that the titles produced were all predoneous, and patched up by simulate collusionpredic. 1622 Durie Decis. 28.
Which alledgiance of want of possession and intimation in the pensioners lifetime, the Lords found relevant to cause the assignation become simulate and extinct
