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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1520-1535, 1597-1657
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Sittar(e, -er, n. [ME and e.m.E. siter, sittere (both Rolle), sitter (Wyclif), syttare (Prompt. Parv.); Sit v.] A sitter, in the senses of the verb, one who is seated, also, specif. one attending or present (at an event) (Sit v. 1). b. A member of an official body (Sit v. 4). c1520-c1535 Nisbet 1 Cor. xiv 30.
Sittare [P. sittere] c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rev. xiv 14. 1597 Edinb. Presb. in McCrie Melville 438.
That Mr. Robert Rollock sall mak ane catalogue of the young men quhom he thinkis meitt to exerceis and that they quha sall come to the presbitrie be sittaris and nocht standeris 1634 Dundonald Par. Rec. 379.
Selling of drink till the sitters was drunken 1650 Scottish Notes and Queries 2 Ser. II 3.
Thair wes … giftis … givin be sindrie sitteris at this brydellb. 1657 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I 341.
Baillies deputts wrytters sitters and officers to be created elected and made be them
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