A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1460-1578, 1685-1693
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Translato(u)r, n. Also: translatar(e, -ure, -er, translacttor. [ME and e.m.E. translatour (14th c.), translatore (1413), translater (1594), OF translator, -our, L. translātor.] One who translates (Translat(e v. 2) or renders from one language into another.1460 Hay Alex. 19329.
To the translatour now will I pas agane … That this great storie w[reit]t … Was neuir befoir translaittit in this land That is to say out of the Frensche leid 1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 296/2.
The conclusioun of this lytill buk and the excusatioun of the translatour 1513 Doug. i Prol. 286.
I … forbiddis euery wight … Fortill correct … Virgill Or the translatar [Ruddim. translater] blame 1513 Doug. Direct. heading.
Heir the translatar [Ruddim. translatare] direkkis hys buk 1531 Bell. Boece (M) II 403.
Translator 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 16/18.
Ther hes bene diuerse translatours ande compilaris … that tuke grite pleseir to contrafait ther vlgare langage c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1747.
The translatour of Orotius a1578 Pitsc. I 1/2.
The historie … of Scotland quhilk was left onwrettin be the last translature 1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World 154.
Mr. Tindal, the first translator of the Scripture into Inglish, after the Reformation 1693 Adv. Min. Bk. 131.
The bibliothecarius … shall recompile the catallogue … Libri juridici … wheirin these instructions are to be observed, first that the authors names be exactly set doun and carefully distinguished from supplementars and translacttors
