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MS.1
abbreviation of manuscript (L. manu scriptum). Formerly also MSt, erron. MSSt. The form MSS. is used for the pl. manuscripts; by some writers also (after the custom in mod.Latin) for manuscript adj. when agreeing with a plural n.
1670Blount Glossogr. (ed. 3), M.S. stands for manuscriptum, a Manuscript. 1699Bentley Phal. Introd. 22 To shew that it was not taken out of some ancient MS. Ibid. 32 Though some of the MSS Copies of Eusebius date it vi Years before. 1709MSt [see matter n.1 19 d]. 1716Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 334 A little MSSt. containing MSS. Additions to Guil. Neubr. 1780C. Burney in Louisa Twining Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 82 A coachfull of the MSS. I had collected for my ‘History’. 1798Brit. Crit. XI. 111 A selection of all the most important readings from MSS. editions, and versions. 1883A. Barratt's Phys. Metempiric Pref. 21 He generally kept his MSS. at his chambers in Lincoln's Inn.
¶b. Treated jocularly as a word |ɛm ɛs|.
1818Byron Occas. Pieces, To Mr. Murray ii, To thee..The unfledged MS. authors come. 1821― Vis. Judgm. cii, He..drew forth an MS. |