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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Inlargment, -lardgment, -lair(d)gment, n. [e.m.E. inlarge-, enlargement (1540).] a. Setting at large, release from imprisonment. b. Verbal amplification. c. Increase in size or extent. —a. 1651 Carnegie Lett. & Chart. 445.
Ther was ane petticione drawne up … for letters of recommendation for your inlardgment 1669 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II. 608.
He finding sufficient caution that … during the tyme of his inlargment he shall confyn himself within his house 1689 Ib. XIII. 521.
If the saids Lords thought not fitt to grant him his inlargment and libertieb. 1662 Conv. Burghs III. 557.
We sall not … trubl yow with any farder inlairdgment anent the act of … navigationec. 1681 New Mills Manuf. 5.
The inlardgment [of the dye-house]