A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1438, 1590-1679
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Remnant, -and, n. and adj. [e.m.E. and ME remnant, rembnand (c1350), remnond (north., c1400), contracted form of Remanent.] a. noun. The rest (of a number of persons); the remaining part (of a thing). b. adj. Remaining; continuing to exist. —a. ?1438 Alex. (c1580) ii 8656.
With that all mellit the remnand Visage to visage hard fechtand 1606 Acts IV 300/2.
For the remnant of thair landis nocht imparkit bot remaning still in thair possessioun 1679 Scottish Notes and Queries XII 152.
With the remnant of the Barrony of Caskiben belonging to the said Earle of Kintore —b. 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 148.
In the regenerate man there is a remnant corruption 1653 Cramond Ch. Alves 17.
The kell yaird and remnand ground therabout
