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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1442-1578
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Degest, Degeist, v. [e.m.E. degest (1513), variant of digest. Cf. Degest,ppl.a.] tr. and intr. To digest (lit. and fig.); to dispose, arrange, consider, etc. (Also as p.p.)(1) 1442 Stirlings of Keir 216.
The resonis … of bath the forsaid partyes [being] herde and sadly degestyt a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 303.
Quhen thay the mater rypelie had degest c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 1430.
Wer or pes … Lat your hye witt and gud consaill degest a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 1425.
If thow can … fynde Contretioune well degest in to thi mynd 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 9.
The quhilkis humours nocht beand degeistit, mycht … dul ther spreit a1578 Pitsc. II. 58/2.
Consider … the articles quhairof he was accussit by order degestit(2) 1456 Hay II. 148/23.
Tak that with thé in wrytt, and lat it degest in thy mynde a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 2589.
Or his greif degest, His son in to the se he kest
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