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Cieté, Cietie, n. Also: ciette, cietye. [Variant (app. only Sc.) of Ceté and Cité.] A city. 1457 Reg. Episc. Brechin I. 183.
Certane landis and boundis belangyne our said chanceler his kirk, ciette, and citteneris of Brechine a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 43.
Throu the schynyng of the son ane ciete thai se 1508 Reg. Privy S. I. 253/2.
Land liand within the said ciete [of Glasgow] 1516 Ib. 420/1.
Patrik Schaw … cietenar of the said ciete 1533 Bell. Livy I. 88/8.
He began to belt his ciete with ane strang wall of stane 1559 St. A. Kirk S. 5.
In presence of the congregatioun in the paroche kirk of the said ciete [of St. Andrews] 1560 Rolland Seven S. 9.
Of townis and towris, greit villages & cieteis Ib. 26. 1570 Leslie 157.
Thair wes ane graye fryer in the cietye of Glasgwo brint a1578 Pitsc. I. 363/11.
The marieag … was triumphantlie solemnizet in that forsaid cietie 1622-6 Bisset I. 94/27.
The cietie, toun, or place, quhair they … sit for the tyme