the puif 071 a , s ' ie came nigh unto the camp, he sawNor an( ^ ?he dance. Ear. xxxii. 19.
t} WaS v * rtue poison’d, soon as born,p e{v * e t0 ° ear ^T thoughts of being king. Dryd.Uients 5> an ^ Cosiness, and pleasures, and enjoy-ll °thirvp Se f ni S rea t things to us, whilst we think ofe 'key »jf • e \ hut as 9007105 we add death to them,^0 ' ONt Sln ^ into an equal littleness. Law.
s Peed^‘ adv ' ,[ from S00 ”-] Quickly;
oth Ull ^‘ This word I remember in no^ce*" ^ ace > kilt if soon be, as it seemshave been, an adjective, soonly is
''“Si'am? 11 rnee * s w ilh a stone that wants no cut-*ork, approving of it, places it in his
* More.
p, ERRY. n.s. [sapindus, Lat.] AS0 0 ^‘ Miller.
t),jj-j ’*• s - [pot, Sax. so*t, Island , soetSoop Condensed or embodied smoke.
c 0 ij) 0 O * “° u gh thin spread in a field, is a verv good
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hre be not kept within the tunnel of the^t, J? an d some appointed to sweep down thehouse will be in danger of burning. Howel,Softer j Oft they assay’d,ti.^li >» a thirst constraining ; drugg’d as oftWith u ^ est disrelish, writh’d their jaws,y,Ou t u nn d cinders fill’d-. Miltons Ear. Lost.ffch fro^v- 10 ^ g°ds,that droop upon our hearths,*ke ]Vj I 11 bis venerable face snail brushcaonian soot, and shine again.
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i» an Dl at \j. [from soot-] Smeared« Th e ]’ or covered with soot.
^O'O'rv, ant ^ w as sooted before. Mortimer.
f:ikl et ? KlN - n ' *• A. kind of false birthto be produced by the Dutch 0 W? k'om sitting over their stoves.
was » from his teeming head,
V®'re f n i|' llr ,goddess brouglitlo bed,
S.sfter.k^ , at *>is lying-in,r - f j-['ii lrt h nsooterkin. Swift.
s • [foS, Sax .] Truth; reality.
fSir, ete -
V-^taud you this of me in sooth,t], t .‘ a tlie r i St < i ai 'ghter, whom you hearken for,tk. r? e Ps from all access of suitors.
Shahesp.
If 1 f rora a H access of suitors,
pf 8 * s * ster first be wed. fI ^te r . 'ke sooth: he says he loves my daugh-
i^°5 'he 1°° ’ ^ or nev ^r gaz’d the moonif1 ai >&h» at . er ’ as he ’ll stand and read*V * F 3 e ^® 8, Shakesp. Winters Tale.cliJ Uon e ai !^ skill in soothsaying, as in sooth I’I'jSe capj 11 doth prognosticate that 1 shallV «rv . Camden’s Remains.
k is> that an ill habit has thedi<f l l J* te. L’Estrange.
. t!* tooth , 1 nieun to chide you ;
^0f\ ° c he r ;.i° s . a y> I hold it noble in you
ri8 h the distress’d. J Rowe.
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^ l| e»!l 0n ^c!wVr leal ‘ s 1 haTe ’
*““<W ®f Melibsus old I learn’d,r - le pberd that e’er pip’d on plains.
3r.' ft, , c Milton.
t 0 i ’ Sweetness ; kindness. ThisN1 • 'film . tlle , ^caning here.
S‘! tl, e 1 ,IS ton g ue of min e,
yitii^ pr 0l j n 'enc e of dread banishmentf 0 Sr\ of. should take it off againK V^Tji 00t h. Shakesp . Richard II .
C,flatted' fe e ro«ian, Sax .]
.‘its, ■ to please with blandish-
'i. P le «fr'.K n i’i.' ve n °urisli ’gainst our senatesoo+f lon > insolence, sedition. Shak.
1 d to * yrann yr
u *Urn’S e ni ^. ro yHl master murder’d,t* u / a distaff in the throne? Dryd.
SOP
By his fair daughter is the chief confin’d,
Who sooths to dear delight his anxious mind ;Successless all her soft caresses prove,
To banish from his breast his country’s love.
Pope’s Odyssey.
Thinks he that Memnon, soldier as he is,Thoughtless and dull, will listen to his soothing?
Rowe.
I’ve tried the force of every reason on him,Sooth’d and caress’d, been angry, sooth’d again ;Laid safety, life, and interest in his sight;
But all arc vain, he scorns them all for Cato.
Addison's Cato.
2. To calm ; to soften ; to mollify.
The beldame
Sooths her with blandishments, and frights withthreats. Dryden.
3. To gratify ; to please.
This calm’d his cares \ sooth'd with his future fameAnd pleas’d to hear lus propagated name.Dryden.
So’other. m. s. [from sooth.] A flat-terer ; one who gains by blandishments.] cannot flatter: I defy
The tongues of soothers. Shakesp. Hen. IV.
To Soo’thsay. v. n. [sooth and say.] Topredict; to foretel.
A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination,met us, which brought her masters much gainsoothsaying. Acts, xvi.
Soo'thsayer. n. s. [from soothsay.] Aforeteller; a predicter; a prognostica-tor.
Scaice was Musidorus made partaker of this oftblinding light, when there were found numbers ofsoothsayers, who affirmed strange arid incredibletilings should be performed by that child. Sidney.
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Shakesp.
He was animated to expect fno papacy by theprediction of a soothsayer, that one should succeedPope Leo, whose name should be Adrian, an agedman of mean birth, and of great learning and wis-dom. Bacon ’s iLcnry VII.
Soo'tiness. n. s. [from sooty. 1 Thequality of being sooty; fuliginousness.
1. Breeding soot.
By fire of sooty coal the alchymist turnsMetals to gold. Milton.
2. Consisting of soot; fuliginous.
There may be some chymica! way so to defe-cate this oil, that it shalf not spend into a sootymatter. Wilkins.
3. Black; dark; dusky.
All the grisly legions that troopUnder the sooty flag of Acheron *,
Harpies and Hydras , and all monstrous forms.
Milton.
Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome,
And in a vapour reach’d the gloomy dome. Pope.
To Soo'ty. v.a. [from soof.] To makeblack with soot.
Then (for his own weeds) shirt and coat all rent,Taun’d and all sootied with noisome smokeShe put him on *, and over all a cloke. Chapman.
Sop. n. s. [pop, Sax . soya, Span, soppe,Dut.]
1. Any thing steeped in liquor, commonlyto be eaten.
The hounded waters
Would lift their bosoms higher than the shores,And make a sop of all this solid globe. < Shakesp.
Draw, you rogue! for though it benight, yetthe moon shines : I’ll make a sep o’ th’ moonshineof you. # Shakesp.
Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriatemore than wine of itself. Bacon s Nat. Hist.
2. Any thing given to pacify, from thesop given to Cerberus.
The prudent Sibyl had before prepar’dA sop, in honey steep'd, to charm the guard ;Which,mix’d with powerful drugs, she cast beforeHis greedy grinning jaws, just op’d to roar.Dryd.
HI nature is not cured with a so}); quarrelsome 1
SOP
men, as well as quarrelsome curs, are worse forfair usage. L’Estrange.
To Cerberus they give a sop,
His tripple barking mouth to'stop. Swift.
To Sop. v. a. To steep in liquor
Sope. n.s . [See Soap.]
Soph, n . s. [from sophista, Lat.] A youngman who has been two years at the uni-versity.
Three Cambridge sophs and three pert templarscame,
1 he same their talents, and their tastes the same ;Each prompt to que ry, answer, and debate,
And smitwith love of poesy and prat e.Pope’s Dun.
Sophi. ii. s. [Persian .] The emperorof Persia .
By this scimitar
That slew the sophi and a Persian prince. Shakesp.
A fig for the sultan and sophi. Congreve.
So’phism. w. [sophisma, Lat] A fal-lacious argument; an unsound subtilty;a fallacy.
When a false argument puts on the appearanceof a true one, then it is properly called a sophismor fallacy. Watts.
I, who as yet was never known to showFalse pity or premeditated woe,
Will graciously explain great nature’s laws.
And hear thy sophisms in so plain a cause. Harte.
So’phist. 'n. s. [sophista, Lat.] A pro-fessor of philosophy.
The court of Croesus is said to have been muchresorted to by the sophists of Greece , in the hap; ybeginning of his reign. Temple .
So’p HISTER. n. s. [sophisle, Fr. sophista,Lat.]
T. A disputant fallaciously subtle; unart-ful but insidious logician.
A subtle traitor needs no sophister. Shak. tl. VI.
If a heathen philosopher brings arguments fromreason, which none of our atheistical sophisters canconfute, for the immortality of the soul, 1 hopethey will so weigh the consequences, as neither totalk nor live as if there was no such thing. Denh.
Wot all the subtle objections of sophisters andrabbles, against the gospel, so much prejudicedthe reception of it, as the reproach of those crimeswith winch they aspersed the assemblies of Chris-tians. Rogers.
2. A professor of philosophy; a sophist.This sense is antiquated.
Alcidimus the sophister hath arguments to prove,that voluntary and extemporal far excelleth pre-meditated speech. Hocker.
Sophi'stical. adj. [sophistique, Fr. fromsophist .] Fallaciously subtle ; logically
deceitful.
Neither know 1 whether I should prefer formadness, and sophistical cozenage, that the samebody of Christ should be in a thousand places atonce of this sublunary world. Hall.
When the state of the controversy is well under-stood, the difficulty will not be great in givinganswers to all his sophistical cavils. Stillingjket.
That may seem a demonstration for the present,which to posterity will appear a mere sophisticalknot. , Mure.
Sophi stically. adv. [from$op/«$fw*fl/.]With fallacious subtility.
Bollingbroke argues most sophistically. Sufi
To Sophisticate, v.a . [sophistiquer,Fr. from sophist.] To adulterate; tocorrupt with something spurious.
If the passions of the mind be strong, they easilyso/i/mttcatetheunderstanding; they make it apt tjbelieve upon every slender warrant, and to ima-gine infallible truth where scarce any probableshew appeareth. Hooker.
Here’s three of us are sophisticated. Shakesp.
Divers ex periments succeeded not, because theywere at one time tried with genuine materials,and at another time with sophisticated ones. Boyle .
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