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& s. [A. S. sódh =true. a true thing, truth; cogn. with Icel. sannr; Sw.. sann; Dan. sand.] IMG:content-1733.png:[blocks in formation] 236 *3. To say yes to; to humor by a enting. "Good my lord, soothe him: let him take the fellow." Shakesp.: Lear , iii. 4. "Still there is room for pity to abate And soothe the sorrows of so sad a state." IMG:content-1734.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Covered or foul with soot. "Her snowy fingers combing his sooty beard."- Carew : II. Bot .: Fuliginous (q. v.). sooty-albatro , s . IMG:content-1735.png:[blocks in formation] *soot, v . t . [SooTY, a.] To make foul or dirty with soot. "Tann'd and all sootied with noisome smoke." Chapman. ( Todd .) sõp, *soppe, s. [A. S. soppa , soppe (not found, but seen in the derived verb soppigan =to sop); cogn. with Icel. soppa =a sop, from sopinn , pa. par. of súpa =to sup; sop i =a sup, a sip; O. Dut. soppe ; Dut. sop ; Sw. soppa broth; Low Ger. soppe a sop. Sop and soup are doublets.] I. Lit .: Anything steeped or dipped and softened in liquor; specifically, something thus steeped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. "Jesus aunswered, he it is to whom I geue a soppe , when I haue dipt it." John xiii. (1551.) 1. Something given to pacify; in allusion to the old legend of sop given to Cerberus, the watch-dog of the infernal regions, to pacify him. "Even Cerberus, when he had received the sop , per- mitted Æneas to pa ." - Dryden : Postscript to the Æneis. *2. A thing of little or no value. sop-in-wine, sops-in-wine, s. IMG:content-1736.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1737.png:[blocks in formation] Pope : Dunciad , ii. 379. sō-phi, sō-pheě, sō-phy, s . [SOFI.] 1. The same as SOFI (q. v.). 2. A title of the Emperor or Shah of Persia. "By this scimitar That slew the soph i and a Persian prince." Shakesp . Merchant of Venice , ii. 1. *sophic, *soph-ic-al, a. [Gr. sophos=wise.] Teaching wisdom. "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."- Dr . Harris: On the 53d Chapter of Isaiah , p. 256. IMG:content-1738.png:[blocks in formation] sophistically so-phist'-Ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. sophistical; -ly.] In a sophistical manner; fallaciously; with sophistry. "He sophistically argues that society would certainly not like him to die of starvation."-London Daily Telegraph. so-phist-Ic-al-ne , s. [ Eng.sophistical; -ne .] The quality or state of being sophistical.