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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Inbuke, Inbuik, v. Also: inbewk. [Cf. Imbuik v.] tr. To enter in a book of record; to record, register, enrol.1588 St. A. Baxter Bks. 43.
Nochtwithstandyng Jhonne Scharpe … is inbewkit as prenteis to him 1600 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 172.
A request … for inbuiking and inrolling him in the buik of platt 1606 Lett. & State P. Jas. VI 92.
Your maiesties letter to be inbuked in thair register 1619 J. Cranna Fraserburgh (1914) 186.
That na persones … [who] commis to the kirk to be inbuikit for … marriage salbe inbuikit till [etc.] 1631 Kirkcaldy Presb. 27.
That he might have ane nott … of these moneyes … inbuikit in thair Presbytrie buik … ; the Presbytrie … desyres thair clerk to inbuik the samyne
