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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456, 1535-1590
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Unbaptis(i)t, p.p. Also: unbaptyst, -tized, -tesit, -teist, on baptizit. [Late ME and e.m.E. vnbaptist, vnbaptized (both 15th c.); Baptise v., Baptizat(e p.p.] Unbaptised.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxiii 789.
Quhat … sal be of me Gyf I de in sic degre Vnbaptyst ȝet? 1456 Hay I 205/2.
I say that he suld erar tak in pacience the dede na to leve the barne unbaptisit 1535 Stewart 24874.
Roxiana … ane genteill that tyme vnbaptist 1535 Stewart 26280.
The Britis … left thair barnis alway vnbaptist 1567 Reg. Privy C. I 603.
His wyff beand laitlie deliverit of chyld, and the same chyld unbapteist 1573 St. A. Kirk S. 384.
That they present thair bairnis … unbaptized in the communioun iile wythtin the parroch kirk 1590 Criminal Trials I ii 213.
He dememberit the bodeis of the deid corps, and speciallie of bairnis vnbaptesit(b) 1582 St. A. Kirk S. 490.
Jonet Dalgleis … warnit … for keping of ane barn on baptizit
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