A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Solvend, adj. Also: solvende, sulvend. [e.m.E. solvent (1653), L. solvent-, pres. p. stem of solvere to fulfil (an obligation), to pay.] Solvent, financially sound, able to pay one's debts. —1620 Aberd. Council Lett. I 182.
To seik redres and restitutioun of thair goods from deboshed officiers quha wer not solvend 1626 Aberd. B. Rec. III 6.
To come under the paine of fourtie pundis, to be payed be ilk persone contraveinand being solvend 1637 Aberd. B. Rec. III 117.
If any tapster finst [sic] aill, bier, or wther drink to mariner or soiour, not being solvende, the not payment sall nowayes frustrat the skipper [etc.] 1640 Hibbert P. No. 9.
I wald that ȝe wald … agrie with hime … for he is ane man sulvend and cane ay affoord ȝow money when ȝe hawe ado therwith
