† thesaurthesauren.
Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.
= treasure n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > hoarded wealth > treasure
treasure1154
garrison1297
treasury1297
scat1481
thesaur1491
costliness1535
wealth-store1891
1491 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) II. 230/1 Stelaris [and] concelaris, of the said gold or thessaure.
a1510 G. Douglas King Hart ii. 340 Quhair is the thesaure now that ȝe have woun?
1532 Addr. from Convoc. (MS Cleop. E. VI.) lf. 274 b The thesaure of this realme hath beene carried and conueyhed beyond the mountaines to the coort of rome.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 7 Mony hidd thesauris.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 303 Quhat proffit sa euir cumis of that feild..sall cum in to the kingis Thesaur.
Compounds
ˈthesaurhouse n. treasury.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [noun]
treasuryc1290
coffer1377
treasure1426
hoard-housec1440
treasure-house1486
thesaurhouse1488
thesaurer house1489
thesaurary house1495
gold housea1500
thesaurary1592
reconditory1633
thesaurya1639
thesaurus1823
chancery1842
trove1976
1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 85 (margin) Thir boxis put in the Thesaurhous in the grete kist nerrest the windo.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 264 The palice of Halyruidhous..the Thesaurhous, and mony vtheris places.
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