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Quotation dates: 1399-1499, 1597-1598
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Entermeting, -mettyn(g, vbl. n. Also: entremetinge; intermeting, intermetting. [ME. entermetyng (late 14th c.), entremeting, f. Entermet,v.] The fact of having to do with something.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 311.
He … gerte thame … refuse the entremetinge Forthir till have with Agrippyn 1399 Melville Chart. 15.
The forsaide landis to halde and to hafe … but ony entermettyng … to the forsaide Schir Williame 14.. Acts I. 329/2.
All syndrie officiaris the quhilkis has had entermettyn in the said burgh 1456 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 10.
Andro Kere … endytyd for comun entermettyng … with Inglismen in tresonabill maner 1477 Peebles B. Rec. 187.
Sir Qwyntyn Folkert, chaplan … gaf vp al rychtis, possessyon, entermettyng and clam quhylk he haid … to the chaplanry of Geddes Ille 1483 Acts Lords of Council II. Introd. p. cxx.
The actioune … anent the wrangwis entermeting with the office of curatry of Johne Heris(b) c1420 Ratis Raving 446.
With ilke day mone thow Haf intermeting 1484 Acts Lords Auditors *143/1.
A speciale command … direct to the lordis auditouris to decist of all intermetting therwithe a1598 Ferg. Prov. (1641) 14.
Little intermetting makes good friends
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