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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1457-1626
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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 Golagros and Gawane 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 Sages 9.
Of townis and towris, greit villages & cieteis 1560 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
