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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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COMMODATE, n. “A species of loan . . . gratuitous on the part of the lender, by which the borrower is obliged to restore the same individual subject which was lent, in the same condition in which he received it” (Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 203).
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