Scottic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Scottic (comparative more Scottic, superlative most Scottic)
- Alternative spelling of Scotic.
- 1851, Daniel Wilson, “Historical Data”, in The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. and J[ohn] H[enry] Parker, →OCLC, part IV (The Christian Period), pages 469–470:
- It was during this prosperous era, in the very beginning of the sixth century, that a small colony of these Irish Scoti effected a settlement in the district of Scotland now known as the county of Argyle, and conferred on it the name of Dalriada, according to spurious monkish traditions, in honour of their leader, Cairbre Riada, a celebrated Scottic warrior whose epoch is assigned by older Irish annalists to the third century.
- 1862, F[rederick] W[illiam] L[eopold] Thomas, “Description of Beehive Houses in Uig, Lewis, and of a Pict’s House and Cromlech, &c., Harris. […] (Part II.)”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [F]or the Society by Neill and Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 140:
- It is probable that, as in the Orkneys, the Pictish inhabitants and Scottic priests were completely extirpated; in proof of this is the fact that scarcely an island or a farm of any importance in the Hebrides bears a Scottic name.
- 1932, Louis Gougaud, translated by Maud Joynt, “Ecclesiastical Organization of Brittany”, in Christianity in Celtic Lands: A History of the Churches of the Celts, Their Origin, Their Development, Influence, and Mutual Relations (Celtic Studies), Dublin: Four Courts Press, published 1992, →ISBN, chapter IV (The Britons in Armorica), page 117:
- The monastic observance and the tonsure of the monks were Scottic, and remained in force till 818, in which year Louis the Pious, having become master of Brittany by his triumph over Morvan, enjoined on the abbot Matmonoch to substitute the Rule of St Benedict for the insular monastic customs and the Roman corona for the Celtic tonsure.
- 1993, Lloyd Laing, Jenny Laing, “The Picts”, in The Picts and the Scots, [Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire]: Wrens Park Publishing, published 1998, →ISBN, page 15:
- After the Battle of Degsastan in 603, when Aethelfrith the King of Northumbria defeated Aedan of the Scots, working perhaps in alliance with the Britons of Strathclyde, Scottic dreams of power in regions to their south were curtailed.