A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1533-1549, 1622-1650
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Supputatioun, -ion(e, n. [Late ME and e.m.E. supputacion (a1450), supputation (1545), L. supputātiōn-. Cf. F. supputation (1532 in Larousse).] (A) reckoning, (a) calculation. —1533 Bell. Livy I 19/32.
Herand how he and his brother Romulus war twynnys, and thare age respondent to the samyn date and supputatioun of ȝeris in quhilkis thai war devisit to be slane 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 36/16.
Efftir the supputatione of Helie … the varld hes bot four hundretht fyfty tua ȝeir tyl indure 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 37/29.
The quhilk, be astrolog supputatione, accordis vitht the sext daye of June 1622-6 Bisset I 20/23.
Supputatioun of the tymes past, Of bischopis, paipis [etc.] a1650 Row 38.
James VI, by an Act of Councill, ordained the supputation of the beginning of the yeare to be from Januar 1
