sober (sober)

[ are, make sober, a.] I. trans. 1. To make sober; free from intoxication. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Pope, E ay on Criticism, 1. 218. 21. To mitigate; a uage; soften; restrain. A! my lord, & it like yow at this lefe tyme, I be-sec he you, for my sake sober youre wille. You deemed yourself a melancholy sobersides enough! Mi Fanshawe there regards you as a second Diogenes in his tub. Charlotte Bronte , Villette, xxviii. sober-suited (sō'ber-sūted), a. Clad in dull colors; somberly dre ed. Come, civil night, Thou sober - suited matron, all in black.