A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1584-1590
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(Unofferit,) Unofferrit, -offrit, p.p. [e.m.E. vnoffred (1526); Offer v.] Not offered; without being offered. —1584 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 415.
Our Court leives nathing that can be unoffrit to satisfie hir M[ajestie], … and to repair all bygane elistis 1590 Edinb. B. Rec. V 28.
Thomas Broun, skipper … come in the tounis will with Jhonn Schanks … for selling thair ingyeouns in Leyth, unofferrit to the toun
