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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1499-1500
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Diminut(e, Dymynut, p.p. [e.m.E. dyminute (1533), L. dīminūtus.] = Deminute p.p. — a1500 Henr. Fab. 41 (Makc.).
Gyf ȝe fynd owcht … be dymynut [B. diminut] or ȝit superfluus
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