A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unbiass'd, -byass'd, ppl. adj. [17th c. Eng. unbias'd (1607), unbyass'd (1673).] absol. as noun. One who is without bias. —1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1751) 90.
All honest, and unbyass'd ken Those whom thou mean'st, were worthy men c1721 10th Rep. Hist. MSS App. i 126.
The unbiass'd are strangely disjoynted through the busie artifice of those who find their account in unexpressable confusion
