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REGISTRATE, adj., v. Also †registrat(t).
1. Pa.p. and ppl.adj., registered, recorded (Sc. 1799 H. Mitchell Scotticisms 70).Sc. 1706 W. Fraser Hist. Carnegies (1867) 261:
I am content and consents thir presentts be insert and registrat in the Book of Councell and Sessione.Mry. 1722 Sc. N. & Q. (Nov. 1931) 202:
We both were accordinglie infeft and the dispositione reg[ist]rate and the sasine both at Edinburgh.Sc. 1752 J. Louthian Form Process 135:
Persons charged upon Criminal Letters are denounced, and registrate to the Horn.
2. Wrongly construed as an infinitive and used as a verb = to register, with consequent double pa.pl. formation registrated.Ork. 1712 A. W. Johnston Church in Ork. (1940) 100:
A proper book in folio, quhairin they might registrate their actings.Sc. 1718 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 26:
Let Death syne registrate his Bill.Wgt. 1723 Session Bk. Wgt. (1934) 318:
The bond is to be registrated.Fif. 1740 A. Mercer Hist. Dunfermline (1828) 132:
The associate session paid up in bonds, bills, and mony, three thousand and two hundred merks, and got a discharge, the which discharge is registrated.Per. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 XI. 555:
Several of the Seceders do not registrate their children's births.Lnk. 1899 H. Muir Hamely Echoes 19:
When some dear frien's ta'en frae earth, We registrate wi' Archie.
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