scottic

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Scotic.

   “It was during this prosperous era, in the very beginning of the sixth century, that a small colony of these Irish Scoti effected a settlement in the district of Scotland now known as the county of Argyle, and conferred on it the name of Dalriada, according to spurious monkish traditions, in honour of their leader, Cairbre Riada, a celebrated Scottic warrior whose epoch is assigned by older Irish annalists to the third century.”

   “It is probable that, as in the Orkneys, the Pictish inhabitants and Scottic priests were completely extirpated; in proof of this is the fact that scarcely an island or a farm of any importance in the Hebrides bears a Scottic name.”

   “The monastic observance and the tonsure of the monks were Scottic, and remained in force till 818, in which year Louis the Pious, having become master of Brittany by his triumph over Morvan, enjoined on the abbot Matmonoch to substitute the Rule of St Benedict for the insular monastic customs and the Roman corona for the Celtic tonsure.”

   “After the Battle of Degsastan in 603, when Aethelfrith the King of Northumbria defeated Aedan of the Scots, working perhaps in alliance with the Britons of Strathclyde, Scottic dreams of power in regions to their south were curtailed.”