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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1520-1596, 1651
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Fourtent, -teint, num. a. Also: fourtinte, -tinth. [ME. for-, fourtend (1340), fou rtenthe (a 1400).] Fourteenth. — c1520-c1535 Nisbet Acts. xxvii. 33.
The fourteint day this day ȝe abide 1556 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 101.
Of oure regnne the fourtent yeir 1596 Dalr. I. 172/8.
The fourtinte ȝeir of his regne 1596 Ib. II. 279/28.
The fourtinth of May 1651 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 117.
To preach wpone the fourteint cap. of the same [prophet]
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