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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1505-1531, 1600-1699
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Termination(e, n. [Late ME terminacion (c1450) the action of determining, e.m.E. termynation (1530) the ending of a word, L. terminatiōn-.] A word ending, specif. a grammatical inflection. c1505-8 Donatus 1a.
My ii terminationis of participil quhilk ar thai ens ans 1531 Vaus in Grant Burgh Schools 54.
Quhilk twa wer umquhile of al gener vndir twa terminationes, as hic et hec nostras et hoc nostrate 1531 Vaus (1531) 2.
It is declinit with thre articles vndir ane terminatione twa terminationes or thre terminationes c1616 Hume Orthog. 29.
This difference [of case] we declyne, not as both the Latines and Greekes, be terminationes, but with noates after the maner of the Hebrues, quhilk they cal particles 16.. Rudiments 2b.
[Words like] Mas: and faem: ar knowin be the terminatione 16.. Rudiments 6a (?).
The terminationes of the participles ar eight, ans & c. 16.. Rudiments 9a.
Quhow manie sorts of verbs ar there both in respect of significatione and terminatione?
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