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: 1490-1513, 1591-1598
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Untechit, -taught, wn-, Ontaucht, -teachit, ppl. adj. and p.p.1 [ME and e.m.E. untaght (Rolle), unta(u)ȝt (both Wyclif), ontawght (c1460), vntaught (1533); Tech(e v.1] ppl. adj. a. Of people: Ignorant, uncouth. Also absol. b. Of an animal: Untrained. p.p. Without teaching. —ppl. adj. a. 1513 Doug. viii vi 22.
Tha ontaucht [Ruddim. vncouth] pepill of this cuntre That skatterit dwelt in hie hillis greyn —absol. a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 261.
Better wnborne nor wntaucht [1641 untaught] —b. c1490 Irland Asl. MS 38/11.
Evyn as a vanton and vntechit hors will nocht obey to the rydar na to the bridill —p.p. 1591 Elgin Rec. II 15.
[The minister] offert to teache on Sonday and the baillies [etc.] … requestit him to superceid and continew onteachit … be ressoun of the tumult of the peopill
