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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1508, 1569-1635
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Unrelax(i)t, -ed, p.p. Also: unrelaxat, wnrelaxit, onrelaxt. [18th c. Eng. unrelax'd (1737) not relaxed; Relax v.] Undischarged from (fra, of) outlawry.1508 Reg. Privy S. I 258/1.
Throw … Androis being … our soverane lordis rebell and at his horne unrelaxit thairfra 1569 Reg. Privy C. I 687.
Put to the horne … quhairat he hes remanit lyke as he dois yit continenwallie sensyne unrelaxt 1588 Protocol Book of J. Inglis 30 March.
Our souerane lordis lettres of hornyng, quharfor the said lard of Murois wes denunsit rebell & lyand onder proces of hornyng on relaxt 1591 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 52.
The saidis personis rebellis hes maist prowdlie and contempnandlie remanit … wnrelaxit takand no regard tharof 1593 Reg. Morton I 183.
At the proces [of horning] quhairof the said David maist proudlie and contempnandlie remanis as ȝit unrelaxt 1616 Elgin Rec. II 150.
John Innes … hes becum cautioun for his brother Robert … for giving publict skandell in reparing publickly to … the kirk … being excommunicat and unrelaxat 1626 Justiciary Cases I 38.
Sir William deceissit rebell and at the horne unrelaxt thairfra 1635 Wodrow in Hay Geneal. 97.
[He] wes oft tymes at the horne unrelaxed
