A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1577-1578
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Sociat(e, v. [e.m.E. sociate (1639), L. sociāt-, f. sociāre to unite.] To associate witht. —a1578 Pitsc. I 112/2.
That he … askand mercie [etc.] … of him quhome he persewit maist cruellie witht out ony [sic], sociatit witht the commone enemeis of the realme [1728 him whom he had pursued most cruelly adjoyned and sociated with the common enemies of the realm]
