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Quotation dates: 1616-1664
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Oken, Oikin, Oa(c)ken, a. [e.m.E. and ME. oken, e.m.E. oaken.] = Akin a. b. transf. Like the oak-tree, fixed, immovable. — 1616 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 280.
3 dissone oikin dealls 1649–50 Dumbarton Treas. Acc. MS.
Thrie oken geistes 1663 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 15. 1664 Inverness Rec. II. 221.
Oackenb. 1619 J. Sempill Sacrilege Handl. (1619) 82 (OED.).
Leui was vnder the law, as a tenent at will, remoueable; Melchisedec, and Christ's ministery, as freeholders: oaken-tenants
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