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: 1533-1542
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Surreptice, -tite, adj. [OF surreptice (13th c. in Larousse), L. surreptīcius.] Of letters of grant: Obtained by means of Surreptioun(e theft, or suppression of the truth; hence, invalid, spurious. —1533–4 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 418.
We are oft times dissavit in granting of respittis and remissions undir colour of uthir lettres, and tharfor … the samin lettres sa purchest to be surreptice and fals in thame self and na effect to follow 1542 Reg. Privy S. II 728/1.
Gif ony … writtingis … hapins to be purchest of his grace by sinister and wrang informatioun or inoportoun solicitatioun, his hienes … decernis the samyn surreptite and of nane availl
