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(Situated,) Scituated, Scitwated, p.p. [e.m.E. situated (1560), f. as Situat(e p.p.] = Situat(e p.p. — 1640 Tayler Hist. Fam. Urquhart 135.
The house of Patrick Urquhart of Lethintye, which is scitwated within 12 myles of Aberdeen 1699 History of the Works of the Learned for the Month of November 1699 386.
The Orcades are a knot of islands in number 32 scituated in the northern ocean
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