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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mankit, ppl. a. Also: -yt, -yd, -et, -ed, manced. [North. ME. mankid (Cursor M.), otherwise chiefly or only Sc.] 1. Mutilated, maimed. b. Disfigured. c1420 Wynt. iii. 15.
Quhylum I Off kyngys realle had sevynty … Mankyd [v.rr. -yt, -it] all on lyk manere As now my cas is happynyd here Ib. viii. 2061.
For ane he strak swne the rycht hand … And he, swa mankyd, as brayne wode, [etc.] 1456 Hay II. 40/13.
Na man that has mahaigne, na demembrit, na othir wayis manket in corssage c1460 Consail Vys Man 368. 1513 Doug. x. vi. 118.
The ryght arm, from the schulder al to rent, Apon the mankyt sennonys hyngis by 1535 Stewart 1955. Ib. 56766. 1562-3 Winȝet I. 43/31 (see Markit ppl. a. d).b. 1658 Rothesay B. Rec. 18.
Seing the marks of the straicks on the said Margaret hir face being mankit and blae

2. fig. Of a book, literary work, etc.: Mutilated, disfigured; vitiated, corrupt. a1568 Bann. Bann. MS. i a/7.
My copeis awld mankit and mvtillait 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 75.
The ignorance heirof causis thame collect fals conclusions of certane mankit places of the doctoris a1585 Polwart Flyt. 137 (T).
With mankit, manschocht, mankit meitter 1596 Cal. Sc. P. XII. 409.
[A vitiate copy,] manced, [altered, and so] adultered, [that scarcely it bears the right portrait of my letter]