A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1584-1585, 1648
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Subsign(e, v. P.p. subsigne. [e.m.E. subsign (1572), OF soubsigner (late 13th c. in Larousse), L. subsignāre.] To sign (a document) at the bottom. Also fig. —1648 Cuningham Journal 173.
Wee have sealed and subsigned this contract —fig. 1584–5 Cal. Sc. P. VII 558.
[As in heart I have thought these many years, so must I] be writt subsigne [and confess that I am … her majesty's most faithful servant]
