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† ˈpathment Sc. Obs.
Also 4 payth-, 4–5 paith-, 5 pathe-, 6 paithe-, paithtment.
[app. an alteration of pavement (pament, payment) after path, due to similarity of sound and association of meaning: cf. path v. 4.]
= pavement. (In quot. c 1470, the ground.)
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Egipciane) 719 Þan done I fel one þe paythment. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. xi. 3704 To stampe on halowyd pathement. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 936 The paithment was cled in tendyr greyn. 1538Aberdeen Regr. XVII. (Jam.), The paithtment of the kirk. 1644in W. Ross Pastoral Wk. in Covenant. Times ii. 27 Sums of money..for pathment-stones. |