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» • adv. [This the etymologists derive
int Seer ‘ blit seer means only an
a > ® tlsene ss of any thing; sore almost0r ays includes pain.] With painfulfill ^S^ous vehemence; in a very pain-U y e gtee; with afflictive violence or^ niacity. It is now little used.
P re sse!h arrow> slick fast ill me, and thv handyi £ ^ic sore. Common Prayer.
VV'jdj then lightly leaping to the prey,
Tlijt j mort al steel him smote again so sore,Ijf R ^! ess his unwieldy body lay. Fai 1
ieldy body lay. Fairy Q.
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br^h e * l * s ail d that, and each man’s blowTl, defend, and shift, being laid to sore.Dan.
\V 0 ll |jj l Sh iron hew and mangle sore,
J)j w ° l, ndsand bruises honour more .Hudibrasshook sore their minds. Milton.
^ r cit e na *’ F&tamon were wounded sore,
Sop w . a * hurt hs much. Dryden’s Knight's Tale.e , 8 l gh’d the knight, who this long sermon
Hn'f ard: .
. how 1 considering all, his heart lie chear'd. Dry.
’ ^"i us .> ahull a Rimian, sore repuls’d,
How u*^? Ur arf i va i to tiiis distant isle ?
111 you welcome to these shatter'd legions ?
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^Ouw, A. Philips.
Sy^'HON. 1 7 t. s. [Irish and Scott ] AOf ' J kind of arbitrary exaction! erv 'le tenure, formerly in Scotland ,
Q. n t S' it. I IICIUIIU. T» UC liv * V* U
d 0 tail > had a mind to revel, he came
loty 1 arn °ng the tenants with his fol-io^ hy way Q f contempt called in theq u giliwitjittSy and lived on free
pe r ers : so that ever since, when a°htrudes himself upon another,fo/i his house, and hangs upon himbe a v an ^ board, he is said to som, orfhp v ? ° rWf ’ r * Macbean.
>hi v XaCt u P on them a H kind services ; yea,} 6r ^ w, l^ exactions, coignie, livery, andten ^ ^’hich they poll and utterly undo the^ ants and freeholders under them.
The h ,l * s : [diminutive of sort.}
a called the first year a fawn ; the se--j ^1 v ric ^ et i the third, a sorel. Shakesp.
* ^ith * a< ^ Vt [^ rora ^ore.}f b ere , a great degree of pain or distress.
0 f l ," e stneN of the blood still; all the per-iod | oh 1 _, a hia will not sweeten this little band
oh !—-What a sigh is there ! the heart is
I'll Verc *' ar ged. ~ Shakesp.
Of the warrior train,
2 slat 0,t Were sorely wounded, none were*>th v’",' VrvJen.
'•emence dangerous or afflictive.
Si 'l^'iicli 1 . 1 Have done ill,
^ * t w j|| ( *o accuse myself so sorely .
en j°y no more. ” Shakesp.
of s * J *. s. [from sore.] Tender-a hurt.
e ^tce the soreness of his late pangs of
fu rH ;.f enia ins, finds himself a little indis-
itf*h 1 i*Sl* Presently concludes repentance hathboo w ork. Decay of Piety.
ait |pft^ an tf> swell, and the pain asswaged,fhe pUwl S uc ^ a soreness, that I could hardlyb T^§ ^es of my bed. Temple.
[o’wfitr^.] Properly an% is & n ar S urnent where one propo-t * ) iJ r J r MppQ Curnu l a t e d on another.
HjJ tfte ^ l °lck invented a kind of argu-
■SL!'* Ca|i n ;i l S °f more than three propositions,,e ti t * tc » 13 Sor itcs, or a heap. Dryden.
Kp 0 ?°bn ec t eu several middle terms are cho-^dip Slt ’°ns t M, ne a nother successively in several^ rpv 16 'vitk.i e l ast proposition connects itsN, e,1 ge l la h v th * first subject. Thus, All men,V e a u\ a * ^eh souls often uneasy ; uneasyR 8ue i 3 fon t( - tllerm elves ; now to be one'sin the extreme. ITatfs’s Logick.
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Soro'ricide. n. s. [soror and ceedoj]The murder of a sister.
So'rrage. n.s. The blades of greenwheat or barley. Diet.
So'RRANCE. n.s. [In farriery.] Anydisease or sore in horses. Diet.
So'RREL. n. s. [pope, Sax sorel, Fr.oxalis, Lat.] This plant agrees with thedock in all its characters, and only differsin having an acid taste. Miller.
Of all roots of herbs the root of sorrel goeth thefarthest into the earth. It is a cold and acid herb,that loveth the earth, and is not much drawn bythe sun. Baron.
Acid austere vegetables contract and strengthenthe fibres, as all kinds of soirel, the virtues ofwhich lie in acid astringent salt, a sovereign anti-dote against the putrescent bilious alkali.
So'rrily. adv. [from sorry.] Meanly;poorly; despicably ; wretchedly ; piti-ably.
Thy pipe, 0 Pan, shall help, though I singjtorrily. Sidney.
So'rriness. n. s. [from sorry.] Mean-ness ; wretchedness; pitiableness; des-picableness.
So rrow, n. s. [«org, Dan.] Grief; painfor something past - sadness; mourning.Sorrow is not commonly' understood asthe effect of present evil, but of lostgood.
Sorrow is uneasiness in the mind, upon thethought of a good lost, which might have been en-joyed longer; or the sense of a present evil. Locke.
Sorrow on thee, on all the pack of you ;
That triumph thus upon my misery ! Shakesp.
A world of woe and sorrow. Milton*
Some other hour I will to tears allow ;
But, having you, can shew no soirow now. Dryd.
But peace was theirs, and haimony within,They knew no sorrow, for they knew no sin.
Whyte's Poems.
To So'rrow. v. n. [saurgan , Goth,popjian, Sax .] To grieve; to be sad;to be dejected.
The miserable change, now at my end,
Lament nor sorrow at. Shakesp. Antony and Cleop.
Wherever sorrow is, relief would be ;
If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
By giving love, your sorrow and my griefWere both extermin’d. Shakesp.
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, butthat ye sorrowed to repentance. 2 Cor. vii. 9.
1 neither fear to die, nor desire to live; andhaving mastered all grief in myself, I desire noman to sorrow for me. Hayward.
Send them forth, though sorrowing , yet inbeacc.
Milton.
Sad the prince explores
The neighb’ring main, and sorrowing treads theshores. Pope.
So'rrowed. adj. [from sorrow.] Ac-companied with sorrow. Out of use.
Now the publick body, which doth seldomPlay the recanter, feeling in itselfA lack of Timon’s aid, hath sense ^withalOf its own fail, restraining aid to Timtm ,
And sends forth us to make their sorrowed tender.
Shakesp.
So'rrowful. adj. [sorrow and full.]
1. Sad for something past; mournful;grieving.
Blessed are the}' which have been sorrowful forall thy scourges; for they shall rejoice for thee,when they have seen all thy ^lory. Tab, xiii. 14.
2. Deeply serious. Not in use.
Hannah said, No mv lord, I am a woman of asorrowful spirit 1 I have"poured out my soul beforethe Lord. 1 Samuel.
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3. Expressing grief; accompanied withgrief.
The things that my soul refused to touch, areas my sonowful meat. Job, vi. 7.
L Grieved for something past. It is ge-nerally used of slight or casual miscar-riages or vexations, but sometimes ofgreater things. It does not imply anylong continuance of grief. -
O, forget
What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.
Timon of Athens.
The king was sorry: nevertheless, for the oath’ssake, he commanded the Baptist ’s head to begiven her. Matthew, xiv. 9.
I’m sorry for thee, friend ; ’tis the duke’s plea-sure. . # Shakesp.
We are sorry for the satire interspersed in someof these pieces, upon a few people, from whom thehighest provocations have been received. Swift.
2. [From saur filth, Island .] Vile; worth-less ; vexatious.
How now, why do you keep alone ?
Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
Using those thoughts which should indeed havedied
With them they think on. Shakesp. Macbeth.
If the union of the parts consist only in rest, itwould seem that a bag of dust would be of as firma consistence as that of marble; and Bajazet’scage had been but a sorry prison. Glanville.
Coarse complexions,
And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to plyThe sampler, and to teize the housewife's wool.
Milton.
How vain were all the ensigns of his power, thatcould not support him against one slighting lookof a sorry slave ! L'Estrange.
If this innocent had any relation to his Thebais,the poet might have found some sorry excuse furdetaining the reader. Dryden,
If such a slight and sorry business as that couldproduce one organical body, one might reasonablyexpect, that now and then a dead lump of doughmight be leavened into an animal. Bentley’sSerm.
Sort, n s. [sorte, Fr.]
1. A kind; a species.
Disfigur’d more than spirit of happy sort. Milton.
A substantial and unaffected piety not only givesa man a credit among the sober and virtuous, buteven among the vicious sort of men. Tillotson.
These three sorts of poems should differ in theirnumbers, designs, and every thought IFu/sJi.
Endeavouring to make the signification of spe-cific names clear, they make their specifick ideasof the sorts of substances of a few of those simpleideas found in them. ^ Locke.
2. A manner; a form of being or acting.
Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither he smeltnor seen well by those that wear them. Hooker.
That 1 may laugh at her in equal sortAs she doth laugh at me, and makes my pain hersporty Spenser’s Sonnets.
To Adam in what sort shall I appear? AJi’Jfoii.
3. A degree of any quality.
I have written the more boldly unto you, inswme suit, as putting you in mind..Romans, xv. lo.
1 shall not be wholly without praise, if in somesort I have copied his stile. Dryden.
4. A class or order of persons.
The one being a thing that bclongeth generallyunto all; the other, such as none nut the wiserand more judicious sort can perform. Hooker.
I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. Shak.
The first sort by their own suggestion fell. Mzlt.
Hospitality to the better sort, and charity to thepoor; two virtues that are never exercised so wellas when they accompany each other. Atterb. Serm.
5. A company; a knot of people.
Mine eyes are full of tears •. I cannot see ;
And yet salt w'ater blinds them not so much,
But they can see a sort of traitors here. Shak.
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