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: 1420-1500, 1552
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Unoccupyit, Unoccupiit, Unoccupyid, Wnoccupiit, -yide, Onoccupyt, p.p. [ME and e.m.E. vnoccupied (Wyclif), vnocupyed (c1440), on-ocupyid (1448-9); Occupy v.] a. Of land: Unoccupied, uninhabited. b. Of space: Unfilled, vacant. c. Of a thing: Unused. —a. c1420 Wynt. iv 1760.
Thare was unoccupyid [C. wnoccupyide, W. vnoccupiit] Lyand beyhond an arme off se … a gret cuntre —(b) 1460–70 Innes Sketches 507.
Eftyr that the land lay long onoccupyt —b. a1500 Bk. Chess 2031.
In till this chekkar is als gret the space Wnoccupiit as it that thir folk has Quhen euery man has place in properte —c. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4822.
Those spiritual keis quhilkis Christ to Peter gaif … Unoccupyit thay hald thame in thare neif
