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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: 1480-1502, 1569, 1630

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Unwedset, -wadset(t, p.p. and ppl. adj. [Wedset(t v.] Not put in pledge. —p.p. 1480 Acts Lords of Council I 70/2.
Land … vnset for termes or formale & vnwedset
c1630 Hope Minor Practicks (1726) 70.
A consolidation of the property which was wadset with the superiority, which remained in his person unwadset and undisponed
1569 Rec. Earld. Orkney 128.
Off the said half quhilk is unwadsett or analleit, bot set in fewis
ppl. adj. 1502 Acts Lords of Council MS XI 157b.
The sade Georg sal haue of the vnwadset landis the maile of twa ȝeris

Unwedset p.p., ppl. adj.

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