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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Debar, v. Also: debair. [e.m.E. debarre (1526), app. an English formation, and not from F. debarrer to unbar.] tr. To shut out, exclude.1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 31 (to debar thame fra the croun). a1578 Pitsc. I. 109/15 (nocht debarit nor excludit fre … thy gentrice). 1578 Conv. Burghs I. 75 (to be stoppit and debarrit fra the schip). 1585 Acts III. 414/2 (chartouris … be the quhilkis the airs femell ar debarrit). 1596 Dalr. II. 398/18 (debarit and put fra that office). 1656 Brodie Diary 181 (censured and debaird the sacrament).

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