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: 1575, 1626-1664
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Unite, Unitit, -ed, Wneited, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. vnited (1552), unite (1613); Une v.] a. Of lands: Joined in union, merged. Also, the United Provinces, the seven northern provinces of the Netherlands allied principally by the Union of Utrecht in 1579. b. Marked by perfect unity; uniform. —a. c1575 Balfour Pract. 274.
The inhabitantis of annexit and unitit landis to utheris baronies, sall answer to the justice-airis and schiref-courtis quhair the landis lyis —1626 Garden Worthies 113.
Sall they [sc. the Spanish] ne're desist from the desire Of the wneited provinces impire? 1664 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 541.
[An] act prohibiting the landing and livering of men and goods out of any ship … from any part of the United Provinces —b. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iv 133.
[He] reduced all the empire of Greece to a vnite tranquilitie
