Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1714
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PRIVATE, adj. Also preevat (Slk. 1829 Hogg Shep. Cal. (1874) xii.), prevet (Sc. 1875 A. Hislop Bk. Sc. Anecdote 308). Sc. forms and usages in combs.: 1. private schools, in the Univ. of St Andrews: appar. a kind of seminar or private class as opposed to a public lecture; 2. private waddin, a wedding at which the guests did not contribute money for their entertainment as was done at a penny-waddin or pay-waddin (Fif. 1952).1. Fif. 1714 W. C. Dickinson Two Students (1952) 48, xxv.:
It was K's turn last week to impugn theses in their private Schools, and it will [be] Th's this week. . . . Here he must be in the publick and private Schools three hours in the forenoon and about two in the afternoon without a fire.
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