sophical (sofikal)

[ All those books which are called sophical , such as the Wisdom of Sirach, ., tend to teach the Jews the true spiritual meaning of God's economy Harris, On the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah, p. 256. sophically (sof'i-kal-i), adv . In a sophical man 3. Something given to pacify or quiet; a bribe: so used in allusion to the sop given to Cerberus in order to secure a quiet entrance to the lower world. Why, you unconscionable Rascal, are you angry that I am unlucky, or do you want some Fees? I'll perish in a Dungeon before I'll consume with throwing Sops to such Curs. Sir R. Howard , The Committee, iv. 1. To Cerberus they give a sop , His triple barking mouth to stop. Swift . The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita, in which is Sophically and Mystagorically declared the First Matter of the Stone. Title , in Athenæum, No. 3189, p. 789. sophiet, n. [OF. sophie , sophia , φία , wisdom, σοφός , wise: see sophic .] Wisdom. That in my shield The seuen fold sophie of Minerue conte in A match more mete, syr king, than any here. Poems of Uncertaine Auctors , Death of Zoroas. [( Richardson .) a trifle; a thing of little or no value. For one Pieres the Ploughman hath inpugned vs alle, And sette alle sciences at a soppe saue loue one. Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 124. A sop in the pan, a piece of bread soaked in the dripping which falls from baking or roasting meat; hence, a dainty morsel; a tidbit. Stir no more abroad, but tend your busine ; You shall have no more sops i ' the pan else, nor no porridge. Fletcher , Pilgrim, iii. 7. Sops in winet, the common garden pink, Dianthus plu marius, apparently used along with the carnation or clove pink, D. Caryophyllus, to flavor wine. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names. Bring Coronations, and Sops in wine , Worne of Paramo ures. Spenser, Shep. Cal., April. 4. Resembling soot; dark; dusky. I. will raise From black aby and sooty hell that mirth Which fits their learned round. Randolph, Aristippus, Prol. 5. In zoöl. and bot., fuliginous; of a dusky or dark fuscous color: specifically noting many animals.-Sooty albatro , Diomedea ( Phœbetria ) fuli ginosa, a wide-ranging species of albatro in southern and south temperate seas, of a fuliginous color, with black feet and bill, the latter having a yellow stripe on the side of the under mandible.-Sooty shearwater, Puffin us fuliginosus, a black hagden common on the Atlantic coast of North America, of medium size and entirely fuliginous plumage.-Sooty tern, Sterna ( Haliplana ) fuliginosa, a tern glo y-black above and snowy-white below, with a white crescent on the forehead, black bill and feet, and the tail deeply forked, as is usual in terns. It is 16 inches Sooty Tern (Sterna (Haliplana) fuliginosa). long, and 34 in extent of wings, and is a well-known inhabitant of the coasts of most warm and temperate seas; on tant United States coast of the Atlantic perandorth to the Carol in as. It breeds in large companies, and lays three eggs on the sand, 2 by 14 inches, of a buff or creamy color, spotted and dashed with light brown and purplish. The eggs have some commercial value, and the sooty tern is therefore one of the sea-fowl called egg - birds. sooty (sut'i or sö ́ti), v. t.; pret. and pp. sootied, ppr. sootying. [ Then, for his own weeds, shirt and coat, all rent, Tann'd, and all- sootied with noisome smoke, She put him on; and over all a cloke. Chapman, Ody ey, xiii. 635.