sober minded

Having a disposition of mind habitually sober, calm, and cool. sober-mindedne , s. The quality or state of being sober-minded; freedom from inordinate pa ions; calmne , coolne . *sober-suited, a. Clad in sober, dark, or sad. colored garments; not gayly dre ed or colored. ( Thomson : Summer , 706.) sō-běr, v. t. & i. [SOBER, a.] A. Transitive : 1. To make sober; to cure of intoxication. 2. To make temperate, calm, or cool; to cool down. "Tidings of a very sobering nature had just reached him."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , ch. xii. B. In trans.: To become cool or quiet; to cool down. "Many a horse who will sober down if struck severely once only, will get furious if the punishraent is repeated."- Field , Sept. 4, 1886. *sō-ber-ize, v. i. . [Eng. sober; -ize.] A. In trans.: To become sober. B. Trans.: To make sober; to sober. "And I was thankful for the moral sight, That soberized the vast and wild delight." Crabbe: Tales of the Hall, vi. sō-ber-lý, *so-bre-ly, adv . [Eng. sober , a.; -ly .] 1. In a sober manner; temperately, moderately; as, to live soberly . "If sometimes Ovid appears too gay, there is a secret gracefulne of youth which accompanies his writings, though the stayed ne and sobriety of age be wanting." Dryden. ( Todd .) 5. Seriousne , gravity. "With dull sobriety they raised a smile At Folly's cost." Cowper: Table Talk, 659. sō-brî-quet, sou-bri-quet (quet as [Fr. sobriquet a surname, a nickname; a word of doubtful origin.] A nickname, an a umed name; a fanciful appellation. "The rider of a chestnut, known in the country by the sobriquet of Captain."- Field , April 4, 1885. *soc, *sōke, s . [A. S. sóc =the exercise of judicial power; sócn , sócen =an inquiry, from sóc , pa. t. of sac an=to contend, to seek (q. v.); Icel. sókn =an action at law, an a embly of the people, from sækja to seek.] Old Law : 1. The power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in a manor; jurisdiction of causes and the limits of such jurisdiction. 2. Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 3. An exclusive privilege claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor in which the mill stands, or of being paid for the same as if actually ground. 4. A shire, circuit, or territory. so socage, soccage (age *soc'-age, *soc'-cage (age as Ig), s. [Low Lat. Old Law : A tenure by any certain and determinate service; being in this sense put in opposition to knight-service, where the render was as precarious and uncertain, and to villenage, where the service was of the meanest kind. These tenures are generally considered to be relics of Saxon liberty; retained by such persons as had neither forfeited their estates to the crown nor been obliged to exchange their tenure for the more honorable but, at the same time, more burdensome tenure of knight-service. As, therefore, the distinguishing 235 ascertained, it includes all other methods of holding free lands by certain and invariable rents and duties: and, in particular, petit serjeanty, tenure in burgage, and gavelkind. Socage is distinguished as free and and villein: Free socage (also called com mon or simple socage), where the service was not only certain but honorable, as by fealty and the payment of a small sum, in name of annual rent; villein socage, when the service, though certain; was of a baser nature. From this last tenure have sprung our present copyhold tenures. "In cheerful prattle about -London Daily Telegraph. gardien in socage." *soc-ag-er (ag as Ig), s. [Eng. socag(e); er.] A tenant by socage; a socman. soc-cot-rine, a. [SOCOTRINE.] soc-dol-a-ger, s. [SOCKDOLAGER.]