| 单词 | to take up dittay | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take up dittay   The matter of charge or ground of indictment against a person for a criminal offence; also, the formulated indictment.  to take up dittay, to obtain ‘information and presentments of crime in order to trial’ (Bell  Dict. Law Scot.). ΚΠ 1488						 (c1478)						    Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace 		(Adv.)	 		(1968–9)	  i. l. 274  				A gret dyttay for Scottis thai ordand than. 1535    W. Stewart tr.  H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. 		(1858)	 II. 192  				Befoir the air ane dittay for to tak In euirilk schyre. 1571    in  J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation 		(1891)	 I. xxviii. 182  				The Justice Clerk my dittay red perqueir. a1605    A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 77  				Thy dittay was death: thou dare not deny it. 1609    J. Skene tr.  Regiam Majestatem 6.  				 1637    S. Rutherford Lett. 		(1863)	 I. 431  				As many sentences as I uttered, as many points of dittay shall there be, when the Lord shall plead with the world. 1743    Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia 		(ed. 35)	  ii. iii. v. 412  				The method of taking up offenders by dittay..abolished. 1753    W. Stewart in  Scots Mag. Mar. 135/2  				This letter..is brought as a point of dittay against the pannel. 1818    W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in  Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 317  				Here's the dittay against puir Effie: Whereas [etc.]. < as lemmas | 
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