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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: 1499-1500

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Stationeir, -ere, adj. (Late ME stacionarye (Lydgate), of a planet: having no apparent motion, f. station (Lydgate) the apparent standing still of a planet at its apogee and perigee.) —a1500 Henr. Fab. 632.
Quhair he micht se … the planetis … Thair cours and eik thair mouing in thair spheir Sum retrograde, and sum stationeir

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