Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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†AMERCIAT(E), v. To amerce, fine.Mearns 1730 Baron Court Bk. Urie (S.H.S. 1892) 143:
the Baillie forsaid . . . fyns and amerciates the said Alexander Gibbon in the sum of twenty pound Scots.Sth. 1810 in C. D. Bentinck Dornoch Cathed. and Par. (1926) 344–345:
They therefore Fine and Amerciate Kenneth Macleod and Robert Sutherland alias Noe each in the sum of one pound sterling. pa.p. = amerced, fined.Rxb. 1706 J. J. Vernon in Trans. Hawick Arch. Socy. (Suppl. Papers) (1902):
The said John Hardie and William Atkine were each of them fyned, onlawed and amerciate conforme to Act of Parliament for ane supernumarie mariage of the said John Hardie upon Isobell Atkine.
