Sc. [a. F. thèse (1579 in Godef., Compl.), or ad. med.L. thesis.] = THESIS 4, 5.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Sonn., lxiv. 11. Fy! I refuse sik filthie these or theam.
1640. R. Baillie, Canterb. Self-Convict., 29. The Authour … avowes … that the These alleadged, and all the rest of his booke doeth perfectly agree with the English Articles. Ibid. (1648), Lett. & Jrnls. (1841), III. 63. The generall These which he professed to maintain.
