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Show 5§0 "8oforen. adj. [from foor.] Smeared, ma." nured, or covered with foot So'orERKIN. 7 / Jootkfayers, wh A kind of falfe birt " fabled to be produced by the Dutch wo predi&io " men from fitting over their ftoves LWiIft 00T H. 7. /. [100, Sax.] Trath ; reality __Obfolete Sir, underftand you this of me in foorh ) ‘Her father keeps from all accefs of fuitors Phake[peare Until the eldeft fifter firft be wed He looks like foorh : he fays he lovesimy daugh ter 1 think fo ,too 3 for never gaz'd the moo % My daughter's eyes. - Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale If I have any fkill in foothfaying, as in foorh % *have none, it doth prognofticate that I fhall chang VM Reaps Camden's Remains The very footh of it is, that an ill habit has th L'Efirange "force of an ill fate I did not mean to chide you For, footh to fay, I hold it noble in yo falzie Roawe To cherith the diftrefs'd #00TH. adj. [yo8, Saxon. Pleafing; de lightful Some other means I have l» Which once of Melibzeus old I learn'd The footheff fhepherd that e'er pip'd on plains Milton ©0TH #. / Sweetnefs kindnefs Thi ; fgems to be the meaning here That e'er this tongue of mine o That laid the fentence of dread banifhmen On yond proud man, fhould take it off agai flWith words of footh Shake[peare's Richard 11 "0 SOOTH . a. [geyodian, Saxon. .+ Toflatter; to pleafe with blandifhments In foothing them, we nourith *gainft our fenat The cackle of rebellion, infolence, fedition, Shak Can I footh tyranny Sefim pleas'd to fee my royal mafter murder'd ¢ His crown ufurp'd, a diftaff in the throne ? Dryd By his fair daughter is the chief confin'd \ Who fooths to dear delight his anxious mind « Succefslefs all her foft carefles prove . To banifh from his breaft his country's love Thinks he that Memnon Pope's Odyffey foldier as he is Thoughtlefs and dull, will liften to his_foothing Roave 1've tried the force of every reafon on him : Swltb‘d and carefs'd, been angry, fosth'd again Laid fafety, life, and intereit in his fight But all are vain, he fcorns them all for Cato Addifon's Cato # Tocalm; to foften ; to mollify The beldam Sooths her with blandithments thl‘cflts an This calm'd hi frights wit Dryden cares 5 Jaoth'd wit fame S énd pleas'd to hear his propagated name his futur Dryden OOTHER, . /. [from footh.] A flatterer Ag y 2 4 One who gains by blandifhments I cannot flatter: 1 def t}e tongues of fusthers Shakefpeare's Henry I prediét to foretel A damfel, pofleffed wit met us, whic Sflofibjayiflg T a fpirit of divination brought her mafters much gain b wothfayer that one fhould fuccee By fire of footy coal th' alchymift turn Metals to gold z Milton Confifting of foot ; fuliginous There ma be fome chymica way fo to defecat this oil, that it fhall not fpend into a fosty matter Wilkins All the grifly legions that troo Under the foory flag of Acheron Harpies and hydras, and all monftrous forms Milton Swift on his footy pinions flits the gnome And in a vapour reach'd the gloomy dome 7o Soo'ry. [from foet. with foot Pope 'To make blac Then (for his own weeds) fhirt and coat all rent Tann'd and all footied with noifome fmok Sop. Joppe 1. An to b and over all a cloke Chapman /. [yrop, Saxon; fopa, Spanifh Dutch. thing fteeped in liquor, commonl eaten The bounded water Would lift their bofoms higher than the {hores Shake/p And make a fop of all this folid globe Draw, you rogue! for though it be night, ye the moon fhines: I'll make a fop o' th' moonfhin Shakefpeare of you Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriat Bacon's Natural Hiftory more than wine of itfelf z. Any thing given to pacify, fro Jop given to Cerberus th The prudent Sibyl had before prepar' A [op, in honey fteep'd, to charm the guard Which, mix'd with powerful drugs, the caft befor His greedy grinning jaws, juft op'd to roar. Dryd Il nature is not cured with a fop; quarrelfom men, as well as quarrelfome curs, are worfe for fai L'Eftrange ufage To Cerberus they give a fop Savift His tripple barking mouth to ftop 7o Sop. @w.a. 'To fteep in liquor Sore. #./. [See Soar. SorH. z. /. [from fophifta, Lat.] A youn man who has been two years at the univerfity Three Cambridge fophs and three pert templar Aétsy xvi ! 0;3 THSAYER. n. [, [from footh/ay. oreteller; a predidter ; a prognofticator M.sc?m& was Mufidorus made partaker of this or' inding light, when there were found numbers o Each prompt to query, anfwer, and debate And {mit with love of poefy and prate. Pope's Dun #../o [Perfian. So'pH Perfia So'pu1sM. 7 /i [ fophifma, Lat.] A fallacious argument ; an unfound {ubtilty a fallacy When a falfe argument puts on the appearanc e l c i i e o u t o Waits or fallacy 1, who as yet was never known to fho Falfe pity to premeditated woe Will gracioufly explain great nature's laws t a F a p f i t An SO'PHIST 71._/ feffor of philofophy Temgle beginning of his reign So'rHISTER. 7. [. [ fophifte, Fr. fophifia Latin. 1. A difputant fallacioufly fubtle; an art ful but infidious logician A fubtle traitor needs no fophifter Shakefpeare's Henry V If a heathen philofopher brings arguments fro reafon, which none of our atheiftical jophiffers ca confute, for the immortality of the foul, I hop they will fo weigh the confequences, as ncither t talk nor live as if there was no fuch thing. Denb Not all the fubtle obje@ionsof [ophifters and rab"bies, againft the gofpel, fo much prejudiced th reception of it, as the reproach of thofe crime with which they afperfed the affemblies of chriftians Rogers 2. A profeflor of philofophy ; a fophift This fenfe is antiquated Alcidimus the fophifer hath arguments to prove that voluntary and extemporal far excelleth preme ditated fpeech Hooker SorHI'sTicAL. adj. [ fophiftique, French from fophif. Fallacioufly fubtle; logically deceitful Neither know I whether I fhould prefer for madnefs, and faphiffical couzenage of Chrit thould be in this fublunary world When the ftate of th ftood, the difficulty wil twers to all his fupbiftica that th fame bod thoufand places at once o all controverfy is well under not be great in giving ancavils Stilling flect That may feem a demonftration for the prefent which knot to pofterit will appea a mere fophiftica Moie SorHI1'STICALLY. adv. [from fophiftical. With fallacious fubtilty Bolingbroke argues moft fopbiftically Svift 7o SorHI'STICATE. w. a. [ fophiffiquer Fr. from fophift.] To adulterate; t corrupt with fomething {purious believe upon every flender warrant, and to imagin infallible truth where fcarce any probable fhew ap Hooker peareth Here's three of us are fophifficated. Shakefpeare Divers experiments fucceeded not, becaufe the were at one time tried with genuine materials, an Boyla at another time with fophifticated ones The only perfons amongft the heathens, who /o phifficated. nature and philofophy, were the Stoicks who affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenatio of caufes, reaching even to the elicite ats of man' South's Scrmons will Yet the rich cullies may their boafting fpare3 They purchafe but fopbifticated ware "Tis prodigality that buys deceit Where both the giver and the taker cheat. Dryd The eye hath its coats and humours tranfparen and colourlefs, left it fhould tinge and fophificate th light that it lets in by a natural jaundice. Bentlcy 'The emperor of | SoPHI'STICATE. part. adj. [fro Adulterate ; not genuine verb. By this feimita That flew the fophi and a Perfian prince. Shakefp Congreve A fig for the fultan and fophi [fo/)}){/fa The court of Creefus is f2id to have been muc reforted to by the fophifs of Greece, in the happ If the paffions of the mind be ftrong, they eafil Jophifticate the undetftanding; they make it apt t came The fame their talents, and their taftes the fame To gratify; to pleafe of She put him on' ineredibl 3. Black ; dark ; dufky Upon the water, as he'li ftand and rea Uy an Soo'T1NEss. #. /. [from frory. The quality of being footy ; fuliginoufnefs Soo'ry. adj. [from foot. 1. Breeding foot you hearken for "The youngeft daughter, who frang Pope Leo, whofe name fhould be Adrian, an age man of mean birth, and of great learning and wifdm'n Bacon's Henry VII When Jove was, from his teeming head Of wit's fair goddefs brought to bed There follow'd at his lying-in For after-birth, a footerkin affirme things fhould be performed by that child. Sidney A foothfayer bids you beware the ides of March Shakefpeare He was animated to expeé the papacy by th Mortimer The land was Jooted befope S S0 Lm‘_, pro th Wine fparkles brighter far than fhe >Tis pure and right, without deceit And that no woman ¢'er will be Coavley No, they are all [opbifticate Since then a great part of our fcientifical treafur is moft likely to be adulterate, though all bears th image and fuperfcription of truthj theonly way t know what is gphifficate and what #s not fo, is t bring all to the examen of the touchftone. Glanv So truth, when only one fupplied the ftate Gre fcarce and dear, and )thfi],)}_)éf;‘f;grg Sopu1sTICA TION 7. J l),»-.)\{m [ faphifiication Fr. from fophifticate.] Adulteration ; no genuinenefs Sophiftication is the a& of counterfeiting or adulS teratin |