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A sort of lusty shepherds strive. Waller .
6. Rank; condition above the vulgar.
Is signior Montanto returned from the wars?—I know none of that name, lady; there wasnone such in the army of any sort. Shakesp.
7. [-Sort, Fr. sortes, Lat.] A lot. Out ofuse.
Make a lott’ry,
And by decree let blockish Ajax
Draw the sort to fight with Hector. Shakesp.
J?. A pair; a set; a suit.
To Sort. v. a. [, sortiri , Lat. assortire,Ital.]
1. To separate into distinct and properclasses.
1 come to thee for charitable licence,
To sort our nobles from our common men. Shaft.
A piece of cloth made of white and blackthreads, though the whole appear neither whitenor black, but grey, yet each remains what it wasbefore, if the threads were pulled asunder, andsorted each colour by itself. Boyle.
Shell-fish have been by some of the ancients,compared and sorted with the insects.
Bacons Nat. Hist,
With this desire, she hath a native mightTo find out ev’ry truth, if she had time ;
Th’ innumerable effects to sort ar ight,
And by degrees from cause to cause to climb.
Davies.
The number of simple ideas, that make the no-minal essence of the lowest species, or first sortingof individuals, depends on the mind of man. Locke
The rays which differ in refrangibility may beparted and sorted from one another; and that eitherby refraction, or by reflection. Newton’s Opticks.
But grant that actions best discover man,
Take the most strong, and sort them as you can :The few that glare, each character must mark :
You balance not the many in the dark. Pope.
2. To reduce to order from a state of con-fusion.
These they sorted into their several times andplaces ; some to begin the service of God with, andsome to end ; some to he interlaced between thedivine readings of the law and prophets. Hooker.Let me not be light;
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband ;
And never be Bassanio so from me;
But God sort all! Shakesp. Merchant of Venice.
3. To conjoin ; to put together in distri-bution.
For, when she sorts things present witli thingspast,
And thereby things to come doth oft foresee;
When she doth doubt at first, and chuse at last,These acts her own, without her body, be. Davies.
The swain perceiving, bv her words ill sorted,That she was wholly from "herself transported.
Brown.
4. To cull; to chuse ; to select.
Send his mother to his father’s house,
That he may sort her out a worthy spouse.
Chapman.
To Sort, v . w.
1. To be joined with others of the samespecies.
Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals inthe earth, and minerals with minerals; but both
in common together. . Woodward.
2. To consort; to join.
The illiberality of parents towards their chil-dren, makes them base, and sort with any com-pany. Bacon .
3. To suit; to fit.
A man cannot speak to a son but as a father;whereas a friend may speak as the case reauires,and not as it sorteth with the person. Bacon .
They are happy whose natures sort with theirvocations. Bacon .
Among unequals, what societyCan sort, what harmony, or true delight?
Which must be mutual, in proportion dueGiv’n and receiv’d. Milton’s Paradise Loti.
The Creator calling forth by nameHis mighty angels, gave them several charge,Asserted best with present things. Milt. Par. Lost.
For difFrent stiles with diiFrent subjects sort,As several garbs with country, town, and court.
Pope.
4. [Sortir to issue, Fr.] To terminate;to issue.
It sorted not to any fight, but to a retreat. Bacon .
Princes cannot gather this fruit, except theyraise some persons to be companions ; widen manytimes sorteth to inconvenience. Bacon .
5. To have success; to terminate in theeffect desired.
The slips of their vines have been brought intoSpain , but they have not sorted to the same pur-pose as in their native couutry.
Abbot’s Description (f the World.
It was tried in a blown bladder, whereiuto fleshand a flower were put, and it sorted not; for drybladders will not blow, and new bladders furtherputrefaction. Bacon .
6. To fall out. [from sort a lot, Fr.]
And so far am T glad it did so sort,
As this their jangling 1 esteem a sport. Shakesp.
So'rtal. adj . A word formed hy Locke ,but not yet received.
As things are ranked under names, into sorts orspecies, only as they agree to certain abstractideas, the essence of each sort comes to be nothingbut that idea which the sortal, if I may so call itfrom sort , as 1 do general from genus, name standsfor. Locke.
So'rtance. n. s . [from sort.] Suitable-ness ; agreement.
Here doth he wish his person, with such powerAs might hold sortance with his quality,
The which he could not levy. Shakesp. Henry IV .
So'rtilege. n.s . [sortilege, Vr. sortile-gium, Lat.] The act or practice ofdrawing lots.
So'rtment. n. s . [from $orf.]
1. The act of sorting; distribution.
2. A parcel sorted or distributed.
To Soss. v. n. [a cant word.] To sitlazily on a chair; to fall at once into achair.
The winter sky began to frown;
Poor Stella must pack off to town ;
From wholesome exercise and air
To sossing in an easy chair. Swift.
Sot. n. s . [pot, Sax. sot , Fr. sot , Dut.]
1. A blockhead; a dull, ignorant, stupidfellow; a dolt.
Of the loval service of his sonWhen I inform’d him, then he call’d me sot,
And told me 1 had turn’d the wrong side out.Shak.
Either our braggs
Were crackt of kitchen trulls, or his descriptionProv’d us unspeaking jots. Shakesp.
Soul blinded sots, that creepIn dirt, and never saw the wonders of the deep.
Drayton.
Tell him that no history or antiquity can matchhis conduct; and presently the sot, because heknows neither history nor uiitiqu^, shall beginto measure himself by himself, which is the onlysure way for him uot to fall short. South.
2. A wretch stnpified by drinking.
Every sign
That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. Roscom.
A surly ill-bred ford,
That chides and snaps her up at every word ;
A brutal sot, who, while she holds his head,
With drunken filth bedaubs the nuptial bed.
Granville.
To Sot. v. a. Tostupify; to besot; toinfatuate.
I hate to see a brave bold fellow sotted,
Made sour and senseless, turn’d to whey by love ;A driveling hero, fit for a romance.
DrydensSpanish Fryar.
The potion 4 ... •
Turns his brain, and stupifies his mind;
The sotted moon-calf gapes. *Jirv
To Sot. v. n. To tipple to stup* d 'So'ttish. adj, [from sot.] . - a te \l. Dull; stupid; senseless; in * adoltish.
All’s but naught:
Patience is sottish, and impatience y 0 ** j 0&PBecome a dog that’s mad. Shak. A* 1 *' ore t\} &Upon the report of his apprpfrdb^jpe^bejjjj
Upon the report of his approachhalf fell away and dispersed; dl ?, re ujje i]more desperate or more sottish, did at) n a y<
’Tis sottish to offer at things diatbrought about. . A fv? c k 8re w
The inhabitants of Soldania in Air iirfersottish and grossly ignorant, that they 0 jfilittle from brutes. to
How ignorant are sottish pretenders rlogy !
Stu'
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How ignorant are sottish pretenderslony !
2. Dull with intemperance. .
So'ttishly. adv. [from sottish- Jpidly; dully ; senselessly. , 0 vert re# t
Northumberland, sottishly mad withfortune, procured the king, by his l et * jaitfunder the great seal, to appoint the * a Ljj. jsucceed him in the inheritance of the cr
Atheism is impudent in pretendingphy; and superstition sottishly ignoran » ^ iff*nig that the Knowledge of nature ten
So sottishly to lose the purest pleasures a
forts of this world, and forego the e *L e |y to .immortality in another ; and so despe r bu r, . 1, %sthe risk of dwelling with everlasting ^iciplainly discovers itself to be the 0,05•lolly and deplorable madness in the w ;
So'ttishness. n. s. [from ‘J
1. Dullness; stupidity ; insensib^
Sometimes phlegm putrifies inl ° s °c A \\tishness into an ignorance or neglect o
Few consider what a degree ofconfirmed ignorance men may sin u*
The first part of the text, the fn^y jj, e irness of atheism, will come home ,. esince they make such a noisy preten fleflsagacity. «
2. Drunken stupidity. ok wH* 1 ‘ ^
No sober temperate person cancomplacency upon the drunkenness y
of his neighbour.
Souce. n. s.
See Souse.
So'vereign. adj. [, souverain , *
Span.] .
1. Supreme in power; haviuf? ^
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As teaching bringeth us toour supreme truth; so prayer teacknowledge him our soneretgn 6°° * ,
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Causeless have laid disgraces **
None of us who now thy g raCt: jUjfbef 0 ^
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That mortal bliss should last h> r ■ iv u,cst* tCast us down headlong from o ur ~| to
Whether Esau, then, were ava j ir jghh ^Jacob his sovereign prince bythe reader to judge. #
2. Supremely efficacious; r ^
over diseases. , a
A memorial of fidelity and zca j lC ve Il °servativc of God ’s people from b tf r
fection of heresy. . ■ n in b®*
The most sovereign presenp^- ve( ofempirick ; and, to this p r * ser $} l(l ke$P'report than a horse drench.
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My bosom, as a bed, 0