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SO'R DET. / 2. s. [sourdine, Fr. sordina,

tious, and apt to make our minds sore and unItalian.] A small pipe put

easy; but he that can moderate these affections

will find ease in his mind. into the mouth of a trumpet, to make it

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Laugh at your friends; and if your friends are sound lower or shriller. Bailey. SO'RDID. adj. [sordidus, Latin.]

So much the better, you may laugh the more. 1. Foul; gross; filthy ; dirty.

Pope. There Charon stands,

3. Violent with pain ; afflictively vehe. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin

ment. See SORE, adverb. A length of beard descends, uncomb’d, unclean. Threescore and ten I can remember well,

Dryden. Within the volume of which time I've seen 2. [sordide, Fr.] Intellectually dirty; Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore mean; vile; base.

night Thou canst not those exceptions make,

Hath trifled former knowings.

Sbakspeare. Which vulgar sordid mortals take. Cowley. I will persevere in my course of loyalty, though

It is strange, since the priest's office heretofore the conflict be sore becween that and my blood. was always splendid, that it is now looked upon

Sbakspeare. as a piece of religion, to make it low and sordid, My loins are filled with a sore disease; and

South. there is no whole part in my body. Com. Prayer. 3. [sordide, Fr.) Covetous; niggardly.

Sore hath been their hight,
He may be old,

As likeliest was, when two such focs met arm'd. And yet not sordid, who refuses gold. Denham.

Milton. If one should cease to be generous and cha

Gentle lady, may thy grave ritable, because another is sordid and ungrateful,

Peace and quiet ever liave; it would be much in the power of vice to extin

After this day's travel sore,
L'Estrange.

Sweet rest seize thee evermore. guish christian virtues.

Milton, SO'RDIDLY. adv. [from sordid.) Meanly;

They are determined to live up to the holy

rule, though sore evils and great temporal inconpoorly ; covetously.

veniencies should attend the discharge of their SO'RDIDNESS. n. s. i from sordid.]

duty.

Atterbury. 1. Meanness; baseness.

4. Criminal. Out of use. I omit the madnesses of Caligula's delights, and

Tu lapse in fulness the execrable sordidness of those of Tiberius.

Is sorer than to lye tor need; and falsehood

Cowley. Is worse in kings than beggars. Sbakspeare. 2. Nastiness ; not neatness.

SORE. n. s. [from saur, French.] Providence deters people from sluttishness and

The buck is called the first year a fawn; the serdidness, and p - vokes them to cleanliness. Ray.

second, a pricket; the third, a sorel; and the SORE. n. s. (sar, Sax. saur, Danish.] A fourth year, a sore.

Shakspeare. place tender and painful; a place exco

SORE. adv. [This the etymologists drive riated ; an ulcer. It is not used of a from seer, Dutch : but seer means only wound, but of a breach of continuity, an intenseness of any thing ; sore almost either long continued or from internal always includes pain.] With painful cause : to be a sore, there must be an ex- or dangerous vehemence; in a very coriation; a tumour or bruise is not painful degree; with afflictive violence called a sore before sume disruption or pertinacity. It is now little used. happen.

Thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand Let us hence provide

presseth me sore.

Common Prayer. A salve for any sore that may beride. Shaksp.

The knight, then lightly leaping to the prey,

With mortal steel him smote again so sore,
Receipts abound; but searching all thy store,
The best is still at hand, to launce the sore,

That headless his unwieldy body lay: F. Queen. And cut the head; for, till the core be found,

He this and that, and each man's blow The secret vice is fed and gathers ground. Dryd.

Doth eye, defend, and shift, being laid to sore.

Daniel.
By these all fest'ring sores her councils heal,
Which time or has disclos’d or shall reveal.

Though iron hew and mangle sore,
Dryden.
Would wounds and bruises honour more.

Hudibras, Lice and flies, which have a most wonderful instinct to find out convenient places for the hatch

Distrust shook sore their minds. Milton. ing and nourishment of their young, lay their eggs

So that, if Palamon were wounded sore,

Arcite was hurt as much. upon sures, Bentley.

Dryden. SORE. adj. [from the noun.)

Sare sigh's the knight, who this long sermon

heard: 1. Tender to the touch. It has sometimes

At length, considering all, his heart he chear’d. of before the causal noun.

Dryden. We can ne'er be sure,

How, Didius, shall a Roman, sore repuls'u, Whether we pain or not endure;

Greet your arrival to this distant isle? And just so far are sore and griev'd,

How bid you welcome to these shatter'd leAs b, the fancy is believ'd.

Hudibras.
gions?

A. Pbilips. While sore of battle, while our wounds are green, SO'REHON. I n. s. [Irish and Scottish.] A Why should we tempt the doubtful dye again?

kind of arbitrary exaction It was a right answer of the physician to his or servile tenure, formerly in Scotland, patient, that had sore eyes: If you have more as likewise in Ireland. Whenever a pleasure in the caste of wine than in the use of chieftain had a mind to revel, he came your sight, wine is good; but if the pleasure of seeing be greater to you than that of drinkiny,

duwn among the tenants with his folwine is naught.

Lake. lowers, by way of contempt called in 2. Tender in the mind ; casily' vexed.

the lowlands giliwitiits, and lived on Malice and hatred are very fciting and vexa

free quarters ; so that ever since, whena

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person obtrudes himself upon another, SO'RROW. n. s. (sorg, Danish.] Grief; stays at his house, and hangs upon him pain for something past; sadness; for bed and board, he is said to sorn, or mourning. Sorrow is not commonly be a sorner.

Macbean. understood as the effect of present evil, They exact upon them all kind of services; but of lost good. yea, and the very wild exactions, coignie, livery, Sorrow is uneasiness in the mind, upon the and sorrbon; by which they poll and utterly

thought of a good lost, which might have been undo the poor tenants and freeholders under

enjoyed longer; or the sense of a present evil. them. Spenser.

Locke, SO'R EL. n. s. (diminutive of sore.]

Sorrow on thee, and all the pack of you; The buck is called the first year a fawn; the That triumph thus upon my misery! Shaksp. second, a pricket; the third, a sorel.

A world of woe and sorrow.

Milton. SO'R ELY.adv. [from sore.]

Some other hour I will to tears allow; 1. With a great degree of pain or distress. But, having you, can show no sorrow now. Dry.

Here 's the smell of the blood still; all the To SO'R ROW. v. n. (suurgan, Gothick; perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little

rongian, Saxon.] To grieve; to be hand. Oh! oh! oh! - What a sigh is there! the

sad ; to be dejected. heart is sorely overcharged. Skakspeare. The miserable change, now at my end, Of the warrior train,

Lament nor sorrow at.

Sbakspeare. Though most were sorely wounded, none were

Wherever sorrow is, relief would be; slain.

Dryden.

If you do sorrow at my grief in love, 2. With vehemence dangerous or afflictive.

By giving love, your sorrow and my grief
I have done ill,
Were both extermin'd.

Sbakspeare. Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, That I will enjoy no more. Sbakspeare. but that ye sorrowed to repentance.

2 Cor. SOʻRENESS. 1. s. [from sore.] Tenderness I neither fear to die nor desire to live; and of a hurt.

having mastered all grief in myself, I desire no He that, whilst the soreness of his late pangs

man to sorror for me.

Hayward. of conscience remains, finds himself a little indis

Send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in posed for sin, presently concludes repentance

peace.

Milten, hath had its perfect work. Decay of Piety.

Sad the prince explores My foot began to swell, and the pain asswag,

The neighb’ring main, and sorrowing treads the ed, though it Jeft such a soreness, that I could

shores.

Pope. hardly sufier the clothes of my bed. Temple. SO'RROWED. adj. [from sorrow.] AcSORI’I E5. n. s. [cumeions.] Properly a heap. companied with sorrow. Out of use.

An argument where one proposition is Now the publick body, voich doth seldom accumulated on another.

Play the recanter, feeling in itself Chrysippus the Stoick invented a kind of ar

A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal sument, cousisting of more than three proposi

Of its own fall, restraining aid to Timon;

And sends forth us to make their sorrotred tentions, which is called sorites, or a heap. Dryden. Sorites is when several middle ternis are chos

der.

Sbakspeare. en to connect one another successively in seve- SO'RROWFUL. adj. (sorrow and full.) ral propositions, till the last proposition connects

1. Sad for something past ; mournful; its predicate with the first subject. Thus, All men of revenge have their souls often uneasy;

grieving.

Blessed are they which have been sorrortfal uneasy souls are a plague to themselves; now to be one's own plague is folly in the extreme,

for all thy scourges; for they shall rejoice for W'atts. thee, when they have seen all thy glory.

Tel. SORO'RICIDE, n. so (soror and cædo.] The

2. Deeply serious. Not in use. murder of a sister.

Hannah said, No, my lord, I am a woman of SO'R RAGE. n. s. The blades of green

a sorrowful spirit: I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

1 Samuel. wheat or barley.

Dict. 3. Expressing grief; accompanied with SO'R RANCE, 1. s. [In farriery.] Any dis

grief. case or sore in horses.

Dict, The things that my soul refused to touch, SO'RREL.n. s. (rune, Sax. sorel, Fr. oxalis, as my sorrowful meat.

Job. Lat.) This plant agrees with the dock So'rry. adj. [sanız, Saxon.] in all its characters, and only differs in 1. Grieved for something past. It is ge. having an acid taste.

Miller.

nerally used of slight or casual miscar. Of all roots of herbs the root of sorrel goeth the farthest into the earth. It is a cold and acid

riages or vexations, but sometimes of herb, that loveth the earth, and is not much

greater things. It does not imply any drawn by the sun.

Bacon.

long continuance of grief. Acid austere vegetables contract and strength

O, forget en the fibres, as all kinds of sorrel, the virtues What we are sorry for ourselves in thee. of which lie in acid astringent salt, a sovereign

Timon of Athens. antidote against the putrescent bilious alkali. The king was sorry: nevertheless, for the

Arbutonet.

oath's sake, he commanded the Baptist's head to SO'RRILY. adv. [from sorry.] Meanly ;

be given her.

Mattbew. poorly; despicably, wretchedly; piti

I'm sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's ably.

pleasure.

Sbakspeare. Thy pije, O Pan, shall help, though I sing

We are sorry for the satire interspersed in

some of these pieces, upon a few people, from gorrily.

Sidney, whom the highest provocations have been reSU'R KINESS. n. s. [from sorry.] Mean- ceived.

Seift. Dess; wretchedness; pitiableness ; de. 2. (from saur, filth, Islandick.] Vile; spicableness.

worthless; vexatious.

a

are

man).

How now, why do you keep alone?

8. A pair; a set; a suit. Of sorriest fancies your companions making, To SORT. v. a. (sortiri, Latin ; assortire, Using those thoughts which should indeed have

Italian.) died With them they think on. Sbakspeare.

1. To separate into distinct and proper If the union of the parts consist only in rest,

classes. it would seem that a bag of dust would be of as I come to thee for charitable licence, firm a consistence as that of marble; and Baja. To sort our nobles from our common men. zet's cage had been but a sorry prison. Glanv.

Shakspeare. Coarse complesions,

A piece of cloth made of white and black And checks of surry grain, will serve to ply threads, though the whole appear neither white The sampler, and to reize the house wite's wool. 110r black, but grey, yet each remains what it

Milton. was before, if the threads were pulled asunder, How vain were all the ensigns of his power, and sorted each colour by itself. Boyle. that could not support him against one slighting Shell-fish have been, by some of the ancients, look of a sorry slave!

L'Estrange.

compared and sorted with the insects. Bacon. If this innocent had any relation to his The- With this desire, she hath a native might bais, the poet might have found some sorry ex- To find out ev'ry truth, if she had time; cuse for detaining the reader. Dryden. Th'innumerable effects to sort aright,

If such a slight and sorry business as that could And by degrees from cause to cause to climb. produce one organical body, one might reason

Davies. ably expect, that now and then a dead lump of The number of simple ideas, that make the dough might be leavened into an animal.

nominal essence of the lowest species, or first Bentley sorting of individuals, depends on the mind of

Locke. SORT. n. s. [sorte, French.]

The rays which differ in refrangibility may be 1. A kind; a species.

parted and sorted from one another; and that eiDistigur’d more than spirit of happy sort. Milt. ther by refraction, or by reflexion. Newton. A substantial and unaffected piety not only But grant that actions best discover man, gives a man a credit among the sober and virtu- Take the most strong, and sort them as you can: ous, but even among the vicious sort of men. The few that glare, each character must mark:

Tillotson.
You balance not the many in the dark.

Pape. These three sorts of poems should differ in their numbers, designs, and every thought.

2. To reduce to order from a state of con

Walsh. fusion. Endeavouring to make the signification of spe- These they sorted into their several times and cifick names clear, they make their specifick places; some to begin the service of God with, ideas of the sorts of substances of a few of those and some to end; some to be interlaced between simple ideas found in them. Locke, the divine readings of the law and prophets.

Hooker. 2. A manner; a form of being or acting.

Let me not be light; Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be

For a light wife doch make a heavy husband; smelt nor seen well by those that wear them.

Horker.

And never be Bassanio so froni me;

But God sort all! That I may laugh at her in equal sort

Shakspeare. As she doth laugh at me, and makes my pain 3. To conjoin; to put together in distri

Spenser.

bution. To Adam in what sort shall I appear? Milt. For, when she sorts things present with things 3. A degree of any quality.

past, I have written the more boldly unto you, in

And thereby things to come doth oft foresee; some sort, as putting you in mind. Romans.

When she doth doubt at first, and chuse at last, I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some

These acts her own, without her body, be. sort I have copied his stile. Dryden.

Davies, 4. A class or order of persons.

The swain perceiving, by her words ill sorted, The one being a thing that belongeth gene

That she was wholly from herself transported.

Brown. rally unto all; the other, such as none but the wiser and more judicious sort can perform.

4. To cull; to choose; to select.
Hooker.

Send his mother to his father's house,
I have bought

That he may sort her out a worthy spouse. Golden opinions from all sorts of people. Sbaks.

Cbapman. The first sort by their own suggestion fell.

To SORT. V. n.

Milton. 1. To be joined with others of the same Hospitality to the better surt, and charity to

species. the poor; tuo virtues that are never exercised

Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals so well as when they accompany each other.

in the earth, and minerals with minerals; but Aiterbirg. both in common together..

H'oodward. 5. A company; a knot of people.

2. To consort ; to join. Mine eyes are full of tears: I cannot sce;

The illiberality of parents towards their childAnd yet salt water blinds them not so much,

ren, makes them base, and sort with any comBut they can see a sort of traitors here. Sbuésp.

pany.

Bacon. A sort of Justy shepherds strive. Wuller.

3. To suit ; to fit. 6. Rank; condition above the vulgar.

A man cannot speak to a son but as a father; Is signior Montanto returned from the wars?

whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, -1 know none of that name, lady; there was and not as it sortetb with the person. Bacon.

none such in the army of any sort. Sbakspeare. They are happy whose natures sort with their 9. [sort, French; sortes, Latin.] A lot. vocations.

Bacon. Out of use.

Among unequals, what society
Make a lott'ry,

Cau sor!, what harmony, or true delight?
And by decree let blockish Ajax

Which must be mutual, in proportion due Draw the sort to light with Hector. Sbakspeare, Giv'n and receiv'd.

Milton

her sport.

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L'Estrange

The Creator calling forth by name

A brutal sot, who, while she holds his head, His mighty ar els, gave them several charge, With drunken filth bedaubs the nuptial bed. As sorted best with present things. Milton.

Granoille. For dif'rent stiles with diff'rent subjects sort, To Sot. v. a. To stupify; to besot; to As several garbs with country, town, and court. infatuate.

Pope. I hate to see a brave bold fellow sotted, 4. [sortir, to issue, French.] To termin

Made sour and senseless, turn'd to whey, by love; ate ; to issue.

A driveling hero, fit for a romance. Dryden. It sorted not to any fight, but to a retreat.

The potion

Bacon. Turns his brain, and stupifies his mind; Princes cannot gather this fruit, except they The sotted moon-calf gapes.

Dryden. raise some persois to be companions; which To Sot. v. n. To tipple to stupidity. miny times sortetb to inconvenience. Bacon.

So'TTISH. adj. [from sot.] 5. To have success; to terminate in the

1. Dull; stupid ; senseless; infatuate; effect desired. The slips of their vines have been brought into

doltish. Spain, but they have not sorted to the same pur

All's but naught: pose as in their native country.

Abbot.

Patience is sottish, and impatience does It was trie' in a blown bladder, whereinto flesh

Become a dog that's mad. Shakspeare. and a lower were put, anu it sorted not; for dry Upon the report of bis approach, more than bladders will not blow, and new bladders further

half fell away and dispersed; the residue, being putrefaction.

Bacon.

more desperate or more sottish, did abide in the

field, of whom many were slain. 6. To tall out. [from sort, a lot, French.]

Hayward.

He gain'd a ling And so far am i glad it did so sort,

Ahaz his sottish conqueror.

Milton. As this their jangling I esteem a sport. Sbaksp.

'T is sottish to offer at things that cannot be SO'RTAL adj. A word formed by Locke,

brought about. but not yet received.

The inhabitants of Soidania in Africk are so As things are ranked under names, into sorts sottish and grossly ignorant, that they differ very or species, only as they agree to certain abstract little from brutes.

Wilkins. ideas, the essence of each sort comes to be no- How ignorant are sottisb pretenders to astrothing but that idea which the sortal, if I may so logy!

Swift. call it froin sort, as I do general from genus, name 2. Dull with intemperance. stands for.

Locke.

SOʻTTISHLY. adv. [from soitish.] StupidSO'RTANCE. nis. [from sort.] Suitable

ly ; dully; senselessly. ness ; agreement.

Northumberland, setti:bly mad with over great Here doth he wish his person, with such power fortune, procured the king, by his letters patent As might hold sortance with his quality,

under the great seal, to appoint the lady Jane to The which he could not levy. Shakspeare. succeed him in the inheritance of the crown. SO'RTILEGE. n. s. [sprtilege, French ; sor

Hagerard. tilegium, Latin.] The act or practice Atheism is impudent, in pretending to philoof drawing lots.

sophy; and superstition sottisbiy ignorant, in SO'RTMENT. 1. s. [from sort.]

fancying that the knowledge of nature tends to irreligion.

Gdar ville. 1. The act of sorting ; distribution.

So sottisbly to lose the purest pleasures and 2. A parcel sorted or distributed.

comforts of ihis world, and forego the expectaTo Soss. v. n. (a cant word.] To sit tion of immortality in another; and so despe

lazily on a chair; to fall at once into a rately to run the risk of dwelling with everlastchair.

ing burnings, plainly discovers itself to be the The winter sky began to frown;

most pernicious folly and deplorable madness

in the world. Poor Stella must pack off to town);

Bentley. From wholesome exercise and air

SO'TTISHNESS. 17. s. [from sottish.] To sossing in an easy chair.

Secif. 1. Dulness; stupidity; insensibility, Sot. n. s. (roz, Saxon ; sot, French ; sot, Sonietimes phleen putrities into settisbness, Dutch.]

sottisbness into an ignorance or neglect of all religion.

Holyday; 1. A blockhead; a dull, ignorant, stupid,

Few consider what a degree of :cttishness and fellow; a dolt.

confirmed ignorance men may sin themselves Of the loyal service of his son

into.

South, When I informi'd him, then he call'd me sot,

The first part of the text, the folly and settisbe And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out. ness of atheism, will come home to their case;

since they make such a noisy pretence to wit Either our braggs

Bentley. Were crackt of kitchen trulls, or his description 2. Drunken stupidity. Prov'd us unspeaking sots.

Sbakspeure. No sober temperare person can look with any Soul-blinded sots, that creep

complacency upon the drunkenness and settisk'In dirt, and never saw the wonders of the deep.

ness of his neighbour.

Souté.

See Souse. Tell him that no history or antiquity can match his conduct; and presently the sot, be

SO'VEREIGN adj. [souverain, Fr. sovrano, cause he knows neither history nor antiquity, Spanish.) shall begin to measure himself by hinself, which 1. Supreme in power; having no supe. is the only sure way for him not to fall short. viour.

Scuib.

As teaching bringeth us to know that God is 2. A wretch stupified by drinking.

our supreme truth; so prayer testifieth that we Every sign acknowledge him our sovereign good.

Hooker. That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. Roscom.

You, my sovereign lady,
A suriy ill-bred lord,

Causeless have laid disgraces on my head.
That chides and snaps her up at every word;

Sbakspeare.

Shakspeare.

and sagacity.

Drayton. SOUCE. 9. S.

serise.

None of us who now thy grace implore, Sough. n. s. [from sous, French.) A subBut held the rank of sovereign queen before;

terraneous drain. Till giddy chance, whose malice never bears

Yet could not such mines, without great pains That mortal bliss should last for length of years,

and charges, if at all, be wrought; the delfs Cast us down headlong from our high estate.

would be so fown with waters, it being impossiDryden.

ble to make any addits or soughs to drain them, Whether Esau, then, were a vassal to Jacob,

that no gins or machines could suffice to lay and and Jacob his sovereign prince by birthright, I

keep them dry.

Ray. leave the reader to judge.

Locke.

Another was found in sinking a sough-pit. 2. Supremely efficacious; predominant

Woodwarda over diseases.

Sought. The pret. and part. pass. of A memorial of fidelity and zeal, a sovereign seek. preservaii, e of Gou's people from the venomous

I am sought of them that asked not for me: I infection of heresy.

Hooker.

am found of them that sought me not. Isaiah, The most sovereign prescription in Galen is SOUL. n. s. [rapel, Saxon ; sael, Danish; but empirick; and, to this preservative, of no better report than a horse drench. Sbakspeare.

sual, Islandick'; siel, Dutch.) Love-wounded Protheus,

1. The immaterial and immortal spirit of My bosom, as a bed,

man. Shall lodge thee, till thy wound be throughly When death was overcome, he opened heaven heal'd,

as well to the believing Gentiles as Jews: hea. And thus I search it with a sou’reign kiss. Shak. ven till then was no receptacle to the souls of A water we Çail water of par.dise, by that either.

Hooker. we do to it, is made very sovereign for health. Perhaps, for want of food, the soul may pine;

Bacon. But that were strange, since all things bad and Like the scum starved men did draw

good, From parboild shoes and boots, and all the rest Since all God's creatures, mortal and divine, Which were with any sovereign fatness blest. Since God himself, her eternal food. Davies.

Donne. He remembered them of the promises, seals, Be cool, my friend, and hear my muse dispense and oaths, which by publick authority had passe Some sovereig” comforts drawn from common ed for concluding this marriage; that these, de

Dryden. ing religious bonds betwixt God and their souls, SO'VERZIGN. n. s. Supreme lord.

could not by any politick act of state be disa O, let my sovereign turn away his face,

solved.

Hayzard. And bid his ears a little while be deaf. Sbaksp. So natural is the knowledge of the soul's imBy my sovereign, and his fate, i swear,

mortality, and of some ubi for the future recepRenown'd for fusch in peace, for force in war, tion of it, that we find ome tract or other of it Oft our alliance other lands desir'd. Dryden. in most barbarous nations.

Heylin. So'VERETNLY, adv. [from sovereign.] 2. Intellectual principle. Supremely ; in the highest degree.

Eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. He was sovereignly lovely in himself. Boyle.

Milton.

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, SoʻVEREIGNTY. 1. s. [souverainté, Fr.] when our bodily eyes are closing. Law.

Supremacy; highest place; supreme 3. Vital principle.
power; highest degree of excellence. Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith,
Give me pardon,

To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd That souls of animals infuse themselves
Your unknown sovereignty. Sbakspeare. Into the trunks of men.

Shakspeare, Happy were England, would this virtuous Thou sun, of this great world both eye and

soul. prince

Milton. Take on his grace the sou'reignty thereof. Shak. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds,

To give laws unto a people, to institute magi- That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, strates and officers over them; to punish and Bear on your wings, and in your notes, his praise. pardon malefactors; to have the sole authority

Milton. of making war and peace; are the true marks of In common discourse and writing we leave out sovereignty.

Davies, the words vegetative, sensitive, and rational; and A mighty hunter thence he shall be stild make the word soul serve for all these principles. Before the Lord; as in despite of heav'n,

Watts. Or from heav'n, claiming second sou’reigrity. 4. Spirit ; essence ; quintessence ; princi

Milton.

pal part. Nothing does so gratify a haughty humour, as

He has the very soul of bounty. Sbakspeare. this piece of usurped sovereignty over our bre

Charity, the soul of all the rest. Nilion, thren.

Government of the Tongue.
Jove's own tree,

5. Interiour power,

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, That holds the woods in awful sovereignty,

Would men observingly distil it out. Shaksp. Requires a depth of lodging in the ground; High as his topmost boughs to heav'n ascend,

6. A familiar appellation expressing the So low his roots to hell's dominion tend. Dryd. qualities of the mind. I well foresee, wheue'er thy suit I grant,

Three wenches where I stood, cry'd, That I my much-lov'd sov'reignty shall want, “ Alas, good soul!

Sbakspeare. And her new beauty may thy heart invade. This is a poor mad soul; and she says, up and

Dryden. down the town, that her eldest son is like you. Let us above all things possess our souls with

Shakspeare. awful apprehensions of the majesty and sove- The poor soul sat singing by a sycamore tree, reignty of God.

Regers. Sing all a green willow: Alexander's Grecian colonies in the lidies Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee. were almost exterminated by Sandrocortis; Se

Sbakspeare. leucus recovered the severeipnir in some degree, Keep the poor soul no longer in suspense, but was forced to abandon to him the country Your charge is such as does not need defonce. along the Indus. Arluihinot.

Dryden.

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