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1827. Graces not poured out equally, but diversely sorted and Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 78. given. 21. To ordain; decree. All may be well; but, if God sort it so, 'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect. Shak., Rich. III., ii. 3. 36. 3t. To select; choose; pick out. Am phial us with noble gentlene a ured him that his revenge, whensoever, should sort unto itself a higher subject. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, To help me sort such needful ornaments As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? Shak., R. and J., iv. 2. 34. 4. To set apart; a ign to a particular place or station; rank; cla . I will not sort you with the rest of my servants. Shak ., Hamlet, ii. 2. 274. I hold fit that these narrations, which have mixture with superstition, be sorted by themselves. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 5. To separate into sorts; arrange according to kind; cla ify: sometimes with over . Those confused seeds, which were impos'd on Psyche as an ince ant labour to cull out and sort asunder. Milton , Areopagitica. The accumulation of new material for German and Italians have scarcely begun to sort it. ian history is perplexing in itself; the Germans and Ital Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 61. 6. To conform; accommodate; adapt; suit. I pray thee sort thy heart to patience. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 68. Now was there ever man so fortunate, To have his love so sorted to his wish? Chapman, Blind Beggar of Alexandria, 7. To put in the proper state or order; set right; adjust; dispose. [Scotch.] I have as much a mind as ever I had to my dinner to go back and tell him to sort his horse himself, since he is Scott , Monastery, xiv. as able as I am. 8. To supply in suitable sorts; a ort. He was fitted out by very eminent Merchants of that City, on a design only to Trade with the Spaniards or Indians, having a very considerable Cargo well sorted for these parts of the World. Dampier , Voyages, I. 137. 9+. To procure; obtain; attain; reach. IMG:content-1573.png:[blocks in formation] Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 2. 107. Never any State was so open to receive strangers into their Body as were the Romans; therefore it sorted with them accordingly, for they grew to the greatest monarchy. Bacon, True Greatne of Kingdoms and Estates (ed. 1887). 31. To tend; lead; conduce. They raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience. Bacon , Friendship (ed. 1887). Their several reasons... all sorted to this conclusion: that strict discipline, both in criminal offences and in martial affairs, was more needful in plantations than in a settled state. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 212. 4. To be of the same sort or cla (with another); be like or comparable; consort; a ociate; agree; harmonize: with with, rarely to. Occurrences of present may sort better with ancient examples than with those of the latterer immedi Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. ate times. Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep, And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 689. IMG:content-1574.png:[blocks in formation] Ford , Broken Heart, i. 1. sortable (sôr'ta-bl), a. [ The facilities which Glasgow po e ed of making up sortable cargoes for that market. Scott , Rob Roy, xxvi. 3. Suitable; appropriate; fitting; meet. The flourishing state of learning, sortable to so excellent a patrone [Queen Elizabeth]. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. She's a mettle quean. It's a pity his Excellency is a thought eldern. The like o' your sell.. wad be mair sortable in point of years. Scott , Rob Roy, xxxiv. sortably (sor'ta-bli), adv . Suitably; fitly. Imp . Dict. sortal (sôr'tal), a. [ The e ence of each genus or sort comes to be nothing but that abstract idea, which the general or sortal . name stands for. Locke , Human Understanding, III. iii. 15. sort an cet (sôr'tans), n. [ sort + -ance.] Conformity; suitablene ; appropriatene . [Rare.] Here doth he wish his person, with such powers As might hold sortance with his quality. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 11. sortation (sôr-ta's hon), n . [ sort + -ation .] The act or proce of sorting. [Rare.] The final sortation to which the letters are subjected. Eng . Illust . Mag . , Feb., 1884, p. 294. ( Encyc . Dict .) sortilege, etc. sorteliget, sorteligert, etc. Obsolete forms of sorter i (sôr'ter), n. [ The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, must all join their different arts in order to compleat even this homely production. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations, i. 1. sorter2 (sôr'ter). A spelling of sort o ', for sort of: see under sort, n., and compare kinder. sortes (sôr'tēz), n. pl. [L., pl. of sor (t-)s, lot, share: see sort.] Lots used in a kind of divination, consisting in the chance selection of a pa age from an author's writings-a practice common in ancient times and in the middle ages. The method pursued by the ancients was generally to write a number of verses of a favorite poet on separate slips, put them in an urn, draw out one at random, and from its contents infer good or bad fortune. This form of divination was known as Sortes Homericæ, Sortes Virgiliana, etc., according to the name of the poet from whose works the lines were chosen. Among the Christians of the middle ages the Bible was used for a similar purpose; the book being opened by hazard, or a pin stuck between the leaves, the first pa age catching the eye was accepted as prophetic. Such lots were called Sortes Biblicæ or Sacræ. This use of the Bible is still common as a popular superstition. sortfullyt (sôrt'fül-i), adv. [ About your house so sort fully disposed. Chapman, Gentleman Usher, iii. sortie (sôr'tē), n. [F. sortie (= Sp. surtida = Pg. sortida = It. sort it a ), a going forth, i ue, sally, sortir (= OSp. surtir = It. sortire ), go out, come out, i ue, sally, i uing of a body of troops SOSS