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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1666-1674
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Translatitiously, adv. [e.m.E. translaticious adj. (1611).] By a process of transference, derived from others. — 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 2.
Translatitiously both in England and the Low Countries of Scotland we, by an inveterat custome derived from thence, doe say as yet Anderson, Jameson, Watson [etc.]
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