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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1648-1674

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Tym, Time, v. [ME and e.m.E. time (Layamon), tyme (?a1400).] tr. a. To choose or arrange the time of (an action or event). b. To time it out, to delay. —a. 1656 Laing MSS 307.
That ye find your spirit most bent one ye goe slowlyest and the Lord will time it be himself
1674 Misc. Hist. Soc. I 287 (see Ill adv. 4 b (1)).
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b. a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 32.
Others advised him … to time it out a while in this lingring war a truce might be agreed upon

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