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Residenter, -ar, -o(u)r, n. Also: recident-, resdent- and -iar. [Late north. ME resedenter an ecclesiastic bound to an official residence (once, 1455), also 18th c. Eng. residenter (of St. Pauls) (1719); Resident adj. and n.¹ See also Residenting ppl. adj. (etym. note).] A resident or inhabitant.(a) 1644 S. Leith Rec. 50/1.
Johne Hamilton … being residenter in this our toune of Leith 1647 Durh. Univ. J. XXXIV 65.
Margaret Alex[ande]r, a confessing wich … a recidentour in his land 1664 Irvine Deeds Decreit.
Heugh and Mathow Lines … residenters in Ireland 1665 M.P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 408.
[Refusal to infeft in a tenement comprised from the heritor] till the charger become an actual residenter of their burgh, and … pay common burdens 1666 Lamont Diary 186.
Walter Bowston, residenter att Fackland 1673 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. MS 20 Jan.
That all such persones they sua admitt be actuall treaders or residenters within this burghe 1675 Edinb. B. Rec. X 213.
Commissioners … who are not actuall recidenters within those burghs commissionating them 1675 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 7 July.
Residentar 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. ii viii 1 (1678) 387.
Residenters 1679 Lauderdale P. III 256.
Recidentors 1682 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 41.
These of his majesties privie councell that are residentors within the citty 1692 Cramond Kirk S. III 15 Aug.
That Leny or his heirs residenters in this paroch, have the liberty of the schoole house on sermon dayes 1692 Conv. Burghs IV 152.
Recidentor 1698 Stitchill Baron Ct. 139.(b) a1650 Row 25.
That ministers be residentiars with their flocks(c) 1677 Ellon Par. 136.
[A] resdenter in Logie Buchan