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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Sabot. [Put for ME and e.m.E. (Lord God) Sabaoth (a1325), (our lorde) Sabaoth (Trevisa), (the lord (of)) Sabaoth (Coverdale), L. Sabaoth (Vulg.), f. the Gk. of the Septuagint and the New Testament, f. the Hebrew, lit. ‘of armies, of hosts’, indeclinable in the Gk. and L. and so taken as a name for God; the form is perh. by confusion with Sabot Saboth n. (See E. J. Dobson and P. Ingham Medium Ævum XXXVI 38–9, and note in OUP ed. of Dunb.).] God. — c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 502.
My sely saull salbe saif quhen Sabot all jugis