Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 116
Sooth (n.) Blandishment; cajolery. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sooth (n.) Truth or reality; "in sooth."
Soothed (imp. & p. p.) of Soothe.
Soothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soothe.
Soothe (v. t.) To assent to as true. [Obs.] -- Testament of Love.
Soothe (v. t.) To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. -- Shak.
I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again. -- Addison.
Soothe (v. t.) To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. -- Congreve.
Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. -- Byron.
Syn: To soften; assuage; allay; compose; mollify; tranquilize; pacify; mitigate.
Soothe (v.) Give moral or emotional strength to [syn: comfort, soothe, console, solace].
Soothe (v.) Cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation" [ant: irritate].
Soother (n.) One who, or that which, soothes.
Soothfast (a.) Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. [Archaic] -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. [Archaic] "In very soothfastness." -- Chaucer.
Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience! -- Sir W. Scott.
Soothfast (adv.) Soothly; really; in fact. [Archaic]
I care not if the pomps you show Be what they soothfast appear. -- Emerson.
Soothing () a. & n. from Soothe, v.
Soothing (a.) Affording physical relief; "a soothing ointment for her sunburn."
Soothing (a.) Freeing from fear and anxiety [syn: assuasive, soothing].
Soothingly (adv.) In a soothing manner.
Soothingly (adv.) In a soothing manner; "the mother talked soothingly to her child."
Soothly (adv.) In truth; truly; really; verily. [Obs.] "Soothly for to say." -- Chaucer.
Soothness (n.) Truth; reality. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Soothsay (v. i.) To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay." -- Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell." -- Milton.
Soothsay (n.) A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Soothsay (n.) Omen; portent. Having
God turn the same to good soothsay. -- Spenser.
Soothsayer (n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
Soothsayer (n.) (Zool.) A mantis.
Soothsayer (n.) Someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) [syn: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer].
Soothsayer, () One who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a "diviner," as rendered 1 Sam. 6:2; rendered "prudent," Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yonenim, i.e., "diviners of the clouds") the word is used of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2:27; 5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i.e., "deciders" or "determiners", here applied to Chaldean astrologers, "who, by casting nativities from the place of the stars at one's birth, and by various arts of computing and divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.", Gesenius, Lex. Heb. (See Sorcerer.)
Soothsaying (n.) A true saying; truth. [Obs.]
Soothsaying (n.) The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. -- Acts xvi. 16.
Soothsaying (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. -- Eclus. xxxiv. 5.
Soothsaying (n.) The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means [syn: divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling].
Sootiness (n.) The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. -- Johnson.
Sootiness (n.) The state of being dirty with soot [syn: smuttiness, sootiness].
Sootish (a.) Sooty. -- Sir T. Browne.
Sooty (v. t.) To black or foul with soot. [R.]
Sootied with noisome smoke. -- Chapman.
Sooty (a.) (Sootier, sootiest) 煤煙的；被煤煙覆蓋的；炭黑色的，烏黑的 Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
"Fire of sooty coal." -- Milton.
Sooty (a.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
"The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron." -- Milton.
{Sooty albatross} (Zool.), An albatross ({Phoebetria fuliginosa}) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also {nellie}.
{Sooty tern} (Zool.), A tern ({Sterna fuliginosa}) found chiefly in tropical seas.
Sooty (a.) Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: {coal-black}, {jet}, {jet-black}, {pitchy}, {sooty}].
Sooty (a.) Covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney".
Sop (n.) Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.
He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. -- John xiii. 26.
Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. -- Bacon.
The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. -- Shak.
Sop (n.) Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
All nature is cured with a sop. -- L'Estrange.
Sop (n.) A thing of little or no value. [Obs.] -- P. Plowman.
Sops in wine (Bot.), An old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine.
Garlands of roses and sops in wine. -- Spenser.
Sops of wine (Bot.), An old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.
Sopped (imp. & p. p.) of Sop.
Sopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sop.
Sop (v. t.) To steep or dip in any liquid.
Sop (n.) Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid [syn: sop, sops].
Sop (n.) A concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings."
Sop (n.) A prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries" [syn: standing operating procedure, standard operating procedure, SOP, standard procedure].
Sop (v.) Give a conciliatory gift or bribe to.
Sop (v.) Be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid [syn: sop, soak through].
Sop (v.) Dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce."
Sop (v.) Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse].
SOP, () Standard Operating Procedure
Sop, () A morsel of bread (John 13:26; comp. Ruth 2:14). Our Lord took a piece of unleavened bread, and dipping it into the broth of bitter herbs at the Paschal meal, gave it to Judas. (Comp. Ruth 2:14.)
Sope (n.) See Soap. [Obs.]
Soph (n.) (Eng. Univ.) A contraction of Soph ister. [Colloq.]
Soph (n.) (Amer. Colleges) A contraction of Sophomore. [Colloq.]
Soph (n.) A second-year undergraduate [syn: sophomore, soph].
Sophis (n. pl. ) of Sophi.
Sophi (n.) See Sufi. Sophic
Sophic (a.) Alt. of Sophical.
Sophical (a.) Teaching wisdom. [Obs.] -- S. Harris.
Sophime (n.) Sophism. [Obs.]
I trow ye study aboute some sophime. -- Chaucer.
Sophism (n.) The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or "fallacy". -- I. Watts.
Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers. -- I. Taylor.
Sophism (n.) A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism, sophistry, sophistication].
Sophist (n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.
Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socrates and Plato were sometimes styled Sophists. -- Liddell & Scott.
Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
Sophist (n.) Any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects.
Sophist (n.) Someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious [syn: casuist, sophist].
Sophister (n.) A sophist. See {Sophist}. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
Sophister (n.) (Eng. Univ.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.
Note: The entire course at the university consists of three years and one term, during which the students have the titles of first-year men, or freshmen; second-year men or junior sophs or sophisters; third-year men, or senior sophs or sophisters; and, in the last term, questionists, with reference to the approaching examination. In the older American colleges, the junior and senior classes were originally called, and in some of them are still called, junior sophisters and senior sophisters.
Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.] -- obham. Sophistic
Sophistic (a.) 詭辯性質的；強詞奪理的 Alt. of Sophistical
Sophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
His argument . . . is altogether sophistical. -- Macaulay. -- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. -- So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.
Sophistic (a.) Of or pertaining to sophists.
Sophistic (a.) Plausible but misleading [syn: sophistic, sophistical].
Sophisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Sophisticate.
Sophisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sophisticate.
Sophisticate (v. t.) 使懂世故；使複雜；擅自更改 (v. i.) 強詞奪理 To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. -- Howell.
To sophisticate the understanding. -- Southey.
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. -- M. Arnold.
They purchase but sophisticated ware. -- Dryden.
Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate. Sophisticate
Sophisticate (a.) Alt. of Sophisticated.
Sophisticated (a.) 老於世故的；富有經驗的；精通的；不落俗套的，精緻的 Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. -- Dryden.
Sophisticate (n.) A worldly-wise person [syn: {sophisticate}, {man of the world}].
Sophisticate (v.) Make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls".
Sophisticate (v.) Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: {twist}, {twist around}, {pervert}, {convolute}, {sophisticate}].
Sophisticate (v.) Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: {sophisticate}, {doctor}, {doctor up}].
Sophisticate (v.) Make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design".
Sophisticated (a.) Having, revealing, or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.
‘A chic, sophisticated woman.’
‘A young man with sophisticated tastes.’
Sophisticated (a.) Appealing to or frequented by people who are sophisticated.
‘A sophisticated restaurant.’
Sophisticated (a.) (Of a machine, system, or technique) Developed to a high degree of complexity.
‘Highly sophisticated computer systems.’
Sophisticated (a.) (Of a person or their thoughts, reactions, and understanding) Aware of and able to interpret complex issues; subtle.
‘Discussion and reflection are necessary for a sophisticated response to a text.’
Sophistication (n.) 老於世故；有教養；（科技產品的）複雜；精密 The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. -- Boyle.
Sophistication (n.) Uplifting enlightenment [syn: {edification}, {sophistication}].
Sophistication (n.) A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism}, {sophistry}, {sophistication}].
Sophistication (n.) Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication".
Sophistication (n.) The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment [syn: {sophistication}, {worldliness}, {mundaneness}, {mundanity}] [ant: {naiveness}, {naivete}, {naivety}].
Sophistication (n.) Falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason."
Sophistication (n.) [Mass noun] The quality of being sophisticated.
‘Her air of sophistication and confidence.’
‘The technological sophistication of their products.’
Sophisticator (n.) 詭辯者；矯揉造作者；攙假者 One who sophisticates.
Sophisticator (n.) (pl. - s) One that sophisticates. Especially : One that adulterates.
Sophistry (n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]
Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. -- Coleridge.
Syn: See Fallacy.
Sophistry (n.) A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism, sophistry, sophistication].
Sophistry (n.) The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.
His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort.
Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. Polydore Smith
Sophomore (n.) （大學，高中的）二年級學生；【美】（在實務，技術方面）具有二年經驗者 One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also sophimore.] Sophomoric
Sophomore (a.) 二年級的；二年級學生的Used of the second year in United States high school or college; "the sophomore class"; "his sophomore year". [syn: sophomore(a), second-year].
Sophomore (n.) A second-year undergraduate [syn: sophomore, soph].
Sophomoric (a.) Alt. of Sophomorical.
Sophomorical (a.) 二年級（學生）的；一知半解的；不老練的 Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation. [U. S.]
Sophora (n.) (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants.
Sophora (n.) (Bot.) A tree ({Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
Sophora (n.) Cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria [syn: Sophora, genus Sophora].
Compare: Softa
Softa (n.) Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school. [Written also sophta.]
Sophta (n.) See Softa.
Sopite (v. t.) To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet. [Obs.]
The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies. -- Fuller.
Sopition (n.) The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep. [Obs.]
Dementation and sopition of reason. -- Sir T. Browne.
Sopor (n.) [L.] (Med.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.
Sopor (n.) A torpid state resembling deep sleep [syn: sleep, sopor].
Soporate (v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] -- Cudworth.
Soporiferous (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." -- Swift. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.
Soporiferous (a.) Sleep inducing [syn: soporific, soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic].
Soporiferous (a.) Inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: narcotic, soporiferous, soporific].
Soporific (a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
Syn: Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.
Soporific (n.) A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic. Soporose
Soporific (a.) Sleep inducing [syn: soporific, soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic].
Soporific (a.) Inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: narcotic, soporiferous, soporific].
Soporific (n.) A drug that induces sleep [syn: soporific, hypnotic].
Soporific (a.) 催眠的，使人昏昏欲睡的 Causing sleep or making a person want to sleep.
// The soporific effect of the heat.
Soporose (a.) Alt. of Soporous.
Soporous (a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.
Sopper (n.) One who sops. -- Johnson.
Soppy (a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. -- Dickens.
Soppy (a.) Wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's
sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: sodden, soppy].
Soppy (a.) Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy].
Sopra (adv.) (Mus.) Above; before; over; upon.
Sopranist (n.) (Mus.) A treble singer.
Sopranos (n. pl. ) of Soprano.
Soprani (n. pl. ) of Soprano.
Soprano (n.) (Mus.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
Soprano (n.) (Mus.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.
Sopsavine (n.) See Sops of wine, under Sop.
Sora (n.) (Zool.) A North American rail ({Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.
King sora, the Florida gallinule.
Sorance (n.) Soreness. [Obs.]
Sorb (n.) (Bot.) The wild service tree ({Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
Sorb (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of these trees.
Sorb apple, The fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.
Sorb tree, The wild service tree.
Sorb (n.) Acid gritty-textured fruit [syn: sorb, sorb apple].
Sorb (v.) Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption [syn: sorb, take up].
Sorbate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of sorbic acid.
Sorbate (n.) A material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption.
Sorbefacient (a.) (Med.) Producing absorption.
Sorbefacient (n.) (Med.) A medicine or substance which produces absorption.
Sorbefacient (a.) Inducing or promoting absorption [syn: absorbefacient, sorbefacient].
Sorbent (n.) An absorbent. [R.]
Sorbent (n.) A material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption [syn: sorbent, sorbent material].
Sorbet (n.) A kind of beverage; sherbet. -- Smolett.
Sorbet (n.) An ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice [syn: water ice, sorbet].
Sorbic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C?H?CO?H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Sorbile (a.) Fit to be drunk or sipped. [Obs.]
Sorbin (n.) (Chem.) An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
Sorbite (n.) (Chem.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. -- Sor*bit"ic, a.
Sorbition (n.) The act of drinking or sipping. [Obs.]
Sorbonical (a.) Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist. -- Bale.
Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
Sorcerer (n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. -- Bacon.
Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. -- Ex. vii. 11.
Sorcerer (n.) One who practices magic or sorcery [syn: sorcerer, magician, wizard, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist].
Sorcerer, () A simple tree parser generator by Terence Parr.
Sorcerer, () Is suitable for translation problems lying between those solved by code generator generators and by full source-to-source translator generators. Sorcerer generates simple, flexible, top-down, tree parsers that, in contrast to code generators, may execute actions at any point during a tree walk. Sorcerer accepts extended BNF notation, allows predicates to direct the tree walk with semantic and syntactic context information, and does not rely on any particular intermediate form, parser generator, or other pre-existing application.
Sorcerer, () Is included in the Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set. (1994-02-15)
Sorcerer, () From the Latin sortiarius, one who casts lots, or one who tells the lot of others. (See Divination.)
In Dan. 2:2 it is the rendering of the Hebrew mekhashphim, i.e., mutterers, men who professed to have power with evil spirits. The practice of sorcery exposed to severest punishment (Mal. 3:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15).
Sorceress (n.) A female sorcerer.
Sorceress (n.) A woman sorcerer.
Sorcering (n.) Act or practice of using sorcery.