1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miii/1 [Words that end in isme] be of three sortes... The second be taken of a countrey or language, as of..Scotte, Scotisme, Scotismus.

1653 T. Urquhart Logopandecteision i. 24 There is not any phrase whatsoever, which, for being peculiar to one Speech, and consequently in all other to be improperly taken..hath, when translated from its original idiome, the denomination of Graecism, Latinism, Scotism, Anglicism, and so forth.

1693 G. Ridpath Answer to Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence 57 And this [defence of the use of dialect] may serve for an answer to the notes of other sermons, which they [sc. the authors of Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence] expose because of Scotisms.

1742 H. Mann Let. 1 Apr. in H. Walpole Corr. (1954) XVII. 370 I must however tell you a thing that you knew before me, the Scotism of Lord Deskfoord.

1786 Edinb. Mag. Nov. 318/1 Thus he supposes Scottism and provincial to be synonymous: But there are Scottisms which are not provincial, and provincial phrases which are not Scottisms. Here a doubt may arise as to the propriety of the word Scottism. According to analogy, it should seem that the word ought to be Scotticism.

1839 Sporting Rev. May 376 Lord Mordaunt was, to use a Scottism, ‘somewhat fashed’.

1909 J. Yarker Arcane Schools xii. 495 The Grand Lodge terms, Cowan and Fellow-craft are Scottisms.

1920 A. Carnegie Autobiogr. vi. 65 It gave me a ‘scunner’.., to use a Scotism.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 28 These ages wherin Canons, and Scotisms, and Lumbard Laws, have dull'd, and almost obliterated the lively Sculpture of ancient reason.

1682 E. Cellier Refl. upon Murder S. Edmund-Bury Godfrey 19 Sir Edmund was throttl'd with a Cravatt. Prance swears it was a Handkerchief. Oh, I have hit the Scotism of the business.

1812 Edinb. Rev. Feb. 449 The prudence and management of the See of Rome..has prevented Thomism from becoming the established religion in one country, Scotism in a second, Jansenism in a third, and Molinism in a fourth.

a1871 G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. (1872) I. 454 Scotism [Ger. Scotismus] is..like Thomism, one of the doctrines in which Scholasticism culminates.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 429/2 Hervæus Natalis (ob. 1323) and Thomas Bradwardine (ob. 1349) were determined opponents of Scotism.

1900 Month July 50 This would go to show that Scotism, for which England had been celebrated in the middle ages, had already lost its hold on English Catholic thought.

1921 Eccl. Rev. June 594 The first half of the nineteenth century beheld an eclipse not only of Scotism but also of Thomism and Scholasticism in general.

1991 A. Nichols Shape Catholic Theol. xix. 305 Scotism proposes that in loving God in our concrete service of him in this world we are united with him and so attain in practice that grasp of God which eludes us in theory.