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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Vesy, -ie, Visie, Visit(e, n. Also: wyssitt, weisseit. [17th c. Eng. vizet (1621), visite (1638), F. visée, visite.] a. ? A means of seeing, a peep-hole. b. An inspection, examination or official investigation of some sort. Also comb. c. An act of visiting, esp. of a charitable sort, to the sick, or of a social nature. Also ? transf.a. 1626 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 201.
Item mair to him for ane bose visie to the said yett iii lib.b. 1689 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIV 777.
We did take exact visie and inspectione … of the saids persons leasd(b) 1648–9 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XX 80.
The ruiff put on and theikit conforme to an visite maid thairof be maister David Hereot advocatcomb. 1561–2 Old Dundee I 130.
That there sall be twa honest men … chosen … to vesy man or woman in peril of death and they … to enquire at the sick gif they will mak ane testament … then the vesymasters shall [etc.] … and the … legacy … be registrat … in the buiks of the vesymasters, who, after the decease … sall see the dead's will fulfillit. And gif ony man dee untestit or mak nane inventor nor legacy … the vesymasters sall … tak up inventour and … cause the haill guids … to be roupit 1562 (c1650) Dundee B. Laws 27.
All common officers of this brugh sic as … kirkmaster, piermasters, hospitall masters, visie masters [Old Dundee I 29 vesiemasters] [etc.]c. 1629 Fam. Innes 217.
I did obey your comanddis in kepping ane cold generall wyssitt huyche was moir as my … dewtie 1631 Annandale Corr. 284.
Ye sould be so ernist as to presipitat your self to ane … dangerus jornay for a weisseit in my seiknes 1650 Strathbogie Presb. 121.
He had lyen … sex weekis … yet neuer comforted by the minister his visit 1651 Douglas Corr. 263.
I will make yow the uisite som day of this nixt weektransf. 1636 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 153.
The feasts, and love-blinks, and visits that the prelates have sent unto me