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- adjective Of or relating to
ancient Scotland .
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Examples
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[306] "Scotic" is obviously to be understood here in its earlier meaning as equivalent to "Irish."
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899
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Last heard of on the Ordovi-cian coast, about when a Scotic raid occurred ...
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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Last heard of on the Ordovi-cian coast, about when a Scotic raid occurred ...
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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Diarmaid in the Scotic [= Irish] tongue; but afterwards he was named
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Scotic tongue called Cori Bracayn, in which is a sea-whirlpool most dangerous, wherein if ships enter they come not out.
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Identity of the _Phœnician_ and _Scotic_ Alphabet.
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke
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A word so frequently met with in histories of the medieval Churches of Ireland and Scotland, and so variously understood and applied, that a well-informed writer (Reeves) describes it as the best-abused word in Scotic church-history.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Scotic or Scoto-Irish race became united with the Picts into one kingdom in the year 843, under King Kenneth MacAlpine, a lineal descendant and representative of the royal chiefs who led the Dalriadic colony from
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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Edward I. from Scone, and which had been previously used for centuries as the coronation-stone of the Scotic, and perhaps of the Irish, or even the Milesian race of kings, has been placed under their coronation-chair -- playing still its own archaic part in this gorgeous state drama.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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The purely "Scotic period" of our history, as it has been termed, dates from this union of the Picts and
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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