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The only persons amongst the heathens, whosophisticated nature and philosophy, were theStoicks; who affirmed a fatal, unchangeable, con-catenation of causes, reaching even to the eliciteacts of man’s will. South’$ Sermons,
Yet the rich cullies may their boasting spare ;They purchase but sophisticated ware ;
’Tis prodigality that buys deceit,
Where both the giver and the taker cheat. Dryd.
The eye hath its coats and humours transparentand colourless, lest it should tinge and sophisticatethe light that it lets in by a natural jaundice.
Bentley.
Sophisticate, part. adj. [from theverb.] Adulterate ; not genuine.
Wine sparkles brighter far than she,
*Tis pure and right, without deceit,
And that no woman e’er will be ;
No, they are all sophisticate. t _ Cowley.
Since then a great part of our scientifical treasureis most likely to be adulterate, though all bears theimage and superscription of truth ; the only wavto know what is sophisticate and what is not so, isto bring ail to the cxamen of the touchstone. Gian.
So truth, when only oue supplied the state,Grew scarce and dear, and yet sophisticate.Dryden.
Sophistication, w. s. [sophistication,Fr. from sophisticate .] Adulteration ;not genuineness.
Sophistication is the act of counterfeiting oradulterating any thing with what is not so good,for the sake of unlawful train. Quincu-
The drugs and simples sold in shops generallyare adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of thesellers, especially if the preciousness may maketheir sophistication very beneficial. Boyle.
Besides easy submission to sophistications ofsense, we have inability' to prevent the miscarriagesof our junior reasons. Glanville.
Sophistica'tor. n. s. [from sophisticate.]Adulterator; one that makes things notgenuine.
So'phistry. n. s. [from sophist.]
1. Fallacious ratiocination.
His sophistry prevailed ; his father believed. Sid.
These men have obscured and confounded thenatures of things bv their false principles andwretched sophistry; though an act be never so sin-ful, they will strip it of its guilt. South.
2. Logical exercise.
The more youthful exercises of sophistry, themesand declamations. Felton.
To So'porate. ». n. [soporo, Lat.] Tolay asleep. Diet.
Sopori'ferous. adj. [sopor and fero.]Productive of sleep; causing sleep ; nar-cotick ; opiate; dormitive; somniferous;anodyne; sleepy.
The particular ingredients of those maL'icalointments are opiate and soporiferous; for anointingof the forehead, mck, feet, and hack-bone, pro-cures dead sleeps. Bacon .
While the whole operation was performing, Ilav in a profound sleep, by the force of that sopo-rifenms medicine infused into my liquor. Swift.
Sopori'ferousness. n. s. [from sopo-riferous .] The quality of causing sleep.
SoPORl'FICK. adj. [sopor and facio.]Causing sleep; opiate; narcotick.
The colour and taste of opium are, as well asits soporijick or anodyne virtues, mere powers de-pending on its primary qualities. I-ocke
So'pper. ji. s. [from sop.] One thatsteeps any thing in liquor.
Sorb. n. s. [sorbum, Lat.] The berryof the sorb or service-tree.
So'rbile. adj. [from sorbeo, Lat.] Thatmay be drunk or sipped.
SORBl'TION. n. s. [sorbitio , Lat.] Theact of drinking or sipping.
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So rcerer, n. s. [sorcier, Fr. sortiarius,low Lat.] A conjurer ; an enchanter; amagician.
They say this town is full of cozenage,
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,Drug-working S'trcerers that change the mind,Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
And many such like libertines of sin. Shakesp.
The weakness of the power of witches uponkings and magistrates may be ascribed to theweakness of imagination; for it is hard for a witchor a sorcerer to put on a belief that they can hurtsuch. Bacon’s Natural History.
He saw a sable sorcerer arise,
Ail sudden gorgons liiss, and dragons glare,
And ten horn’d fiends. Pope,
The Egyptian sorcerers contended with Moses ;but the wonders which Moses wrought did so fartranscend the power of magicians, as made themconfess it was the finger of God . Watts’s fA)gick.
So'rceress. n. s. [female of sorcerer.']A female magician ; an enchantress.
Bring forth thatsorcemscondemn’d toburn.S7ia/c.
Divers witches and sorceresses have fed uponman’s flesh, to aid their imagination with highand foul vapours. Bacon .
The snaky sorceress that sat,
Just by hell-gate, and kept the fatal key,
Ris’n, and with hideous outcry rush’d between.
Milton.
How cunningly the sorceress displaysHer own transgressions, to upbraid me mine ]Milt.
So'rcerous. adj. Containing enchant-ments. A word not used.
Th’ art eut’rinp Circe ’s house,
Where by her med’cities, black and sorcerous,
Thy snuldiers all arc shut hi well-arm’d sties,
And turn’d to swine. Chapman.
Sorcery, n. s. Magick; enchantment;conjuration; witchcraft; charms.
This witch Sycorax,
For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible,
Was banish’d. Shakesp.
Adders wisdom I have learn’d.
To fence my ears against thy sorceries. Milton.
Actfeon has long tracts of rich soil; but had themisfortune in his youth to lull under the power ofsorcery. Tatler.
Sord. n. s. [corrupted from sward.]Turf; grassy ground.
This is the prettiest low-born lacs that ever ranon the green sord. Shakesp. Winter's Tale.
An altar of grassy sord. Milton.
SO'RDES.n.s. [Lat.] Foulness ; dregs.
The sea washes off the soil anil sordes whereinmineral mosses were involved and concealed, andthereby renders them more conspicuous. Woodw.
So'rdet. ] n.s. [sourdine, Fr. sordino,
So'rdine. / Ital.] A small pipe putinto the mouth of a trumpet, to make itsound lower or shriller. Hailey.
So'rdid. adj. [sor/lidtis.LM.]
1. Foul; gross ; filthy ; dirty.
There Charon stands,
A sordid god ; down from his hoary chinA length of beard descends, uncoiub’d, unclean.
Dryden.
2. [Sordide, Fr.] Intellectually dirty;mean ; vile; babe.
Thou caustnot those exceptions make,
Which vulgar sordid mortals lakr. Cowley.
It is strange, since the priest’s office heretoforewas always splendid, that it is now looked uponas u piece of religion, to make it low and sordid.South's Sermons.
3. [Sordide, Fr.] Covetous ; niggardly.
He may be old,
And yet not sordid, whoirefuses gold. Denham.
If one should cease to be generous and charita-ble, because another is sordid and ungrateful, itwould be much in the power of vice to extinguishChristian virtues. L'Kstrange.
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So rdidly, adv. [from sordid.]poorly ; covetously. .
So'rdidness. n.s. [from sordid ■}
1. Meanness; baseness. ( ..
l omit the madnesses of Caligula tin- execrablesordrdnessof thoseof Iibert
2. Nastiness ; not neatness. ,
Providence deters people from sluttl'’’ /JflV’sordidness, and provokes them tocleann i
Sore. n. s. [pap, Sax. saur, , jjtc 0 'place tender and painful; a P‘ aC , ti f »riateil; an ulcer. It is not US ®- nU it,Vt wound, but of a breach of con ter j]sleither long continued, or from e ycause : to be a sore, there must becoriation ; a tumour or bruise is n0a sore before some disruption naprLet us hence provide
A salve for any sore that may betide. ^ r y >
Shake ttM > <0,e ’
Receipts abound ; but searching an jThe best is still at hand, to hmcc ' rl d,
And cut the head ; for, till the core be a j)ripThe secret vice is fed and gathers g roU ., jjeah j
By these all fest’ring sores her c< f[ ,nC a |.Which time or has disclos’d or shall re g
Lice and flies, which have a n,t j s e5 f ofinstinct to find out convenient p ,a ol uig» Lj,hatching and nourishment of their jtheir eggs upon sores.
1. 'Tender to the touch. It has *°of before the casual noun.
We can ne’er be sure,lure}
And just so fur are sore and grie v jfv^giu
W hether we pain or not endure }
And just so fur are sore and grte ’
As by the fancy is believ’d. ^AatfeP?While sore of ’battle, while our wou age 111 W
hy should we tempt the doubtful TW/j-js
Why
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It was a right answer of the p'O* 1 ^ of
patient, that had sore eyes: If y°. *** of
pleasure in the taste of wine thanyour sight, wine is good; but if 111seeing be greater to you than t‘ ia D*
wine is naught. aved* A*
2. Tender in the mind ; easily v
Malice and hatred are very fretting^ous, and apt to make our nnnds y . JlS
’ ’ * oderate these affect‘d jy ^
but he that can mease in his mind.
Laugh at your friends; and, ifyo ur . |jiur e ' u#'So much the better, yon may lau£ ^
3. Violent with pain; afflict^
ment. See Sore, adverb.
Threescore and ten I can remember gge'J,
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"Within the volume of which rime I ^ut ^
Hours dreadful and things strangenight
Hath trilled former knowings1 will persevere
the conflict be sore ueiwccu ^ £S p,
rr liiiuviup- , r: in toy »urie"f » Ve between that a ffirig.
My loins are filled with a sore £ 01i \v-is no whole part in my body. . j f
Sore lmthteen the* met ^-
As likeliest was, when two such
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Gentle lady, may thy fF ai eacc and quiet ever have JAfter this day’s travel sore,
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•t rest seize thee even.m^ ^ b^'
sweet rest seize time w tn« ‘
bey are determined to live up e | |0 jov.ugh sore evils and great tei P ofthies should attend the discha {* A
4. Criminal. Out of use.
Tolapseinf^fftlseh^
Is sorer than to lye for need, ’
Is worse in kings than begg ar ®; -i „;
Soke. 7t. s. [from saur, *'pJ r »'*
The buck is called the n^ 9 * jor 6 * ;second, a pricket; the tnir tfourth year, a sore .