Middle English Dictionary Entry
scotten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | scotten v. Also scot(te, scoten, skotten, scotti; pl. (early) scotteð, scotten, scotti. |
| Etymology | From scot n.(2); also cp. OF escoter, AF e)scotter, eskoter. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. shotten v.
1.
(a) To share; ~ in (of), share (sth.); (b) lotten and ~, to bear one's share of municipal charges and taxes; (c) to tax (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)177/19-20 : Si compatimur, conregnabimus; As ȝe scottið [Cleo: scotteð; Tit: scotten; Pep: scotti] wið him of his pine on eorðe, ȝe schule scotti [Nero: scotten; Cleo: scotte] wið him of his blisse in heouene.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)184/11 : Wat crist nis he nawt god feolahe ne treowe þe nule scottin i þe lure as eft i þe biȝete.
- a1250 Orison Lord (Lamb 487)187 : Hwa se euer wule habbe lot wiþ þe of þi blisse, he mot deale wiþ þe of þine pine on eorþe; Nis na trewe ifere þe nule naut scottin in þe lure ase in þe biȝete; he mot scottin efne after his euene [þ]e wule beo þin felaȝe.
- c1390 Talking LGod (Vrn)6/30 : Whose euere wol haue part þer of þi blisse, he mot dele wiþ þe heer of þi pyne; Nis he nouȝt good felawe ne felauschupe worþi þat nul scoten i þe los as i þe biȝete.
b
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)153 : Zif ony..wil nott been lottyng and scottyng [ID(1): escotaunt] ne helpyng to the toun, as a burgeys oweth to been, thanne be his fraunchise..repelyd.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)179 : Of every foreyn burgeys that ys not lottyng ne skottyng as per and comoun; And of every other foreyn, iij d.
- (a1500) in Gross Gild Merch.2.138 : I shall lote and scot with my brethren of the Gild, whether I dwell in the town frauncheses or in the Bishop Fee or in any other place.
c
- (1432) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)131 : Ye be scotted and assessed in the some of xx li. toward the reparacon of the walles and clensyng of the diches of the Cite.