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: 1420, 1499-1626
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Uniso(u)n, n. Also: unisone, unysoun, unisunt. [e.m.E. vnisson (1574), unisonne (1575), vnison (1609), OF unison, late L. unisonus.] a. A musical note regarded as the tonic, from which intervals are reckoned. b. attrib. Composed of notes of the same pitch sounding together at intervals of one or more octaves. c. In (full) unisoun, in harmony. Also fig. —a. c1550-c1580 Art of Music 54.
The thrid chaptour is of the convenient and congrew according of the ferd diatessaron consonance placit betuixt the vnison and the octaw —b. a1568 Bell. in Bannatyne MS 2b/107.
In hevinly melodie Quhair thre attanis presentlie assayis the vnisone [Bann. MS I p. 4/107, vnysoun] and concord armonie 1622-6 Bisset II 388/17.
Twa weill tuned instrumentis witht stringis quhen they ar … sett in ane unisunt musicall concordance of harmonie in ane tune —c. a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 188.
Cymbalis organis & clarioun And all menstraly in vnisoun [pr. vrisoun] —fig. c1420 Wynt. vii 421 (W).
The Saxons and the Scottis blude … The barnetyme of that get That Malcome had on Sanct Margret Drew samyn … in full vnysoun [R. unyowne, C. wnyon] To pas syne in successioun
