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To Induce habits of modesty, humility, temperance, 
rngnlity, obedience -in one word, sober-mindedness 
lip. I'urteous, Sermon before the University of Cambridge. 
Bp. 
idge. 
((Latham.) 
sober 
Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, 
Sober, stedfast, and demure. 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 82. 
What parts gay France from sober Spain ? 
Prior, Alma, ii. soberness (so'bt-r-nes), n. [< ME. mbyrws, 
sobuniessv ; < sober + -ness.] The state or char- 
acter of being sober, in any sense of the word ; 
sobriety. 
Sobuniesse. Sobrietas, modestla. Prompt. Pan., p. 402. 
I nm not mad. must noble Featus, but speak forth the 
words of truth and soberness. Acts xxvi. 26. 
sobersides (so'ber-sldz), . A sedate or serious 
person. [Humorous.] 
You deemed yourself a melancholy sobersides enough ! 
Miss tanshawe there regards you as a second Diogenes in 
" 18 * Charlotte Bront,; Villette, xxviii. 
sober-suited (so'ber-su'ted), a. Clad in dull 
colors; somberly dressed. 
The "Good-natured Man" was sober when compared 
with the rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer.' 
JUacaulay, Goldsmith. 
7. Plain or simple in color; somber; dull. 
Now shall my friend I'etruchio do me grace, 
And oifer me disguised in suber robea 
To old Baptista as a sclioolmaster 
Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca. 
Shale., T. of the S., 1. 2. 132. 
Twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad. 
Hilton, P. L., iv. 590. 
Autumn bold, 
With universal tinge of sober gold. 
Keats, Endymion, 1. 
8. Little; small; mean; poor; weak. 
son. [Obsolete or Scotch. ] 
Jamie- 
Come, civil night, 
Thou sober suited matron, all in black 
Shak., R. and J., HI. 2. 11. 
Herald, saith he, tell the Lord Governor and the Lord SObol 1 (so'bol), n. [< Pol. sobol = Russ. soboli, 
Uuntley that we have entered your country with a sober sable : see sable.'] The Russian sable Mustcla 
company (which in the language of the Scots is poor and eibeUina See cut undmv xHblr 
mean) : your army is both great and fresh. cr Slll > le - 
Ueylin, Hist. Reformation, I. 90. 
= Syn. 3-5. Cool, collected, unimpassioned, steady, staid, 
(Dames.) Sgbole, SObol 2 (so'bol, -bol), It. [< L. sobok'8.] 
Same as soboles. 
som'ber. Sober differs from the "words compared 'under SOboleS (sob'o-lez), n. [NL., < L. soboles, more 
grave in expressing the absence of exhilaration or excite- prop, suboles, a sprout, shoot, < sub, under, + 
Whet " er lere < iner ease, grow. In lot., a shoot, or 
ME. soberen, < LL sobri- ere P ln S underground stem; also, a sucker, or 
sober (so'ber), v. 
are, make sober, 
a.] I. trans. 1. 
toxication. 
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, Essay on Criticism, 1. 218. 
2f. To mitigate ; assuage ; soften ; restrain. 
A I my lord, & it like yow at this lefe tyme. 
I be-seche you, for my sake sober youre wille. 
ducingjsoboles : producing strong, lithe shoots. 
Sobranje (so-bran'ye), n. [Bulg. sobranje (so- 
branie) = Russ. sobranie, an assembly, gather- 
ing.] The national assembly of Bulgaria. It 
consists of one chamber, and is composed of members 
chosen to the number of one for every 10,000 inhabitants. 
On extraordinary occasions a Great Sobranje is summoned 
composed of twice this number of members. Also written 
, ______ _________ , ____ ______ Sobramje. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. s.), 1. 8491. sobret, a. A Middle English form of sober. 
Thy Fadir that in heuen is moste, SObresailltt, '* An obsolete form of somersault 
sobrctet, H. A Middle English form of sobriety. 
^^ (so-bri'e-ti), . [< ME. sobertc, sobretc, 
< OF. snbrete, F. sobnett = Pr. sobritat, sobrie- 
tat = Sp. sobriedad = Pg. sobriedade = It. o- 
bricta, < L. sobrieta(t-)s, moderation, temper- 
ance, < sobrius, moderate, temperate: see so- 
fter.] The state, habit, or character of being 
sober. Especially (a) Temperance or moderation in 
the use of strong drink. 
The English in their long wars in the Netherlands first 
learned to drown themselves with immoderate drinking. 
... Of all the northern nations, they had been before this 
most commended for their sobriety. Camden, Elizabeth, iii. 
He vppon highte, 
Thy sorowes for to sobir 
To the he base me sente. York Plays, p. 245. 
3. To make serious, grave, or sad : often fol- 
lowed by down. 
The essential qualities of ... majestic simplicity, pa- 
thetic earnestness of supplication, sobered by a profound 
reverence, are common between the translations [incor- 
porated into the English Liturgy] and the originals. 
Jfi 
. 
acaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. 
The usually buoyant spirits of his attendant had of late 
been materially sobered down. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 36. 
II. intrans. To become sober, in any sense of 
the word. Especially (<z) To recover from intoxica- 
tion : generally with up. (b) To become staid, serious, or 
grave : often followed by down. 
Vance gradually sobered down. Bvlwer. (Imp. Diet.) 
But when we found that no one knew which way to go, 
we sobered down and waited for them to come up ; and it 
was well we did, for otherwise probably not one of us 
would ever have reached California, because of our inex- 
perience. The Century, XLI. 113. 
sober-blooded (so'tier-blud'ed), a. Free from 
passion or enthusiasm; cool-blooded; cool; 
calm. [Rare.] 
This same young sober-blooded boy, ... a man cannot 
make him laugh. Shah., 2 Hen. IV., iv. S. 94. 
SOberize (so'ber-iz), e. ; pret. and pp. soberized, 
ppr. soberizing. [< sober + -ize.'] I. trans. To 
make sober. [Rare.] 
And I was thankful for the moral sight, 
That soberised the vast and wild delight. 
Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, vi. 
Turning her head, . . . she saw her own face and form 
in the glass. Such reflections are soberizing to plain peo- 
ple ; their own eyes are not enchanted with the image. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, vii. 
II. intrans. To become sober. [Rare.] Imp. 
Diet. 
Also spelled soberise. 
soberlyt (so'ber-li), a. [< ME. soberly; < sober 
+ -ly*.] Sober; solemn; sad. 
He nas nat right fat, I undertake, 
Bat loked holwe, and therto soberly. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 289. 
soberly (so'ber-li), adv. [< ME. soberly, sobre- 
liche, soburli/, sobyrly ; < sober + -fy 2 .] In 
(b) Moderation in general conduct or character ; avoid- 
ance of excess or extremes. 
The thridde stape of sobreU is zette and loki mesure ine 
wordes. Ayenbtte of Inu-yt (E. E. T. S.), p. 254. 
That women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with 
shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or 
gold, or pearls, or costly array. 1 Tim. ii. 9. 
We admire the sobriety and elegance of the architectural 
accessories. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 30. 
(c) Reasonableness ; saneness ; soundness : as, sobriety of 
Judgment. 
Our English sobriety, and unwillingness, if I may use the 
phrase, to make fools of ourselves, has checked our philo- 
sophical ambition. Leslie Stephen, Eng. Thought, i. 60. 
(d) Modest or quiet demeanor ; composure ; sedateness ; 
dignity; gravity; staidness. 
In the other's silence do I see 
Maid's mild behaviour and sobriety. 
Shak., T. of the 8., i. 1. 71. 
Though he generally did his best to preserve the grav- 
ity and sobriety befitting a prelate, some flashes of his mili- 
tary spirit would, to the last, occasionally break forth. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
= Syn. (a) and (b) Abstinence, Temperance, etc. See 06- 
stemiousncsa.ic) and (d) Soberness, moderation, moder- 
ateness, regularity, steadiness, quietness. 
sobriquet (so-bre-ka'), n. [Also soubriquet; < 
F. sobriquet, formerly soubriquet, sotbriquet, a 
surname, nickname, formerly also a jest, quip; 
.prob. a transferred use of OF. soubriquet, sonbz- 
briquet, a chuck under the chin, < sous, soubz 
(F. sous) (< L. sub), under, + briquet, brichet, 
brucliet, bruschet, F. brechet, the breast, throat, 
brisket : see sub- and brisket.] A nickname ; a 
fanciful appellation. 
"Amen " was not the real name of the missionary ; but 
it was a sobrvjitft bestowed by the soldiers, on account of 
the unction with which this particular word was ordina- 
rily pronounced. Cooper, Oak Openings, xi. 
a 
sober manner, or with a sober appearance, in 
any sense of the word sober. 
sober-minded (so'ber-min"ded), n. Temperate soc, n. See 
in mind; self-controlled and rational. Soc. An abbreviation of Society. 
Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded. 
Tit. 11. 6. 
sober-mindedness (sp'ber-min"ded-nes), n. 
Sobriety of mind ; wise self-control and mod- 
eration. 
socage, soccage (sok'aj), n. [< OF. socage (ML. 
socaf/itim); as soc + -afic."] In Jaw, a tenure of 
lands in England by the performance of cer- 
tain determinate service: distinguished both 
from knight-service, in which the render was un- 
sociable 
certain, and from rilli iinujr, where the service 
wns of the meanest kind: the only freehold 
tenure in England after the abolition of mili- 
tary tenures. Socage hasgenerally been distinguished 
\ntofree and villein Jreesocayr, m ctnrmi'ni or simple foc- 
aijt, where the service was not only certain but honorable, 
as by fealty and the payment of a small sum, as of a few 
shillings, in name uf annual rent, and / iltrin svcaye, where 
the service, though certain, was of a baser nature, 'llils 
last tmm was the equivalent of what is now called copy- 
hold tenure. 
In tocaye land the land, that is, which was held by 
free tenure, but without military service the contest 
between primogeniture and gavel kind was still undecided 
in the thirteenth century. /'. 1'ollock, Land Laws, p. 57. 
Guardianship In socage. a guardianship at common law 
as an incident to lands held by socage tenure. It occurs 
where the infant is seized, by descent, of lands or other 
hereditaments holden by that tenure, and Is conferred on 
the next of kin tn the infant who cannot possibly Inherit 
the lands from him. Minor. Socage roll, the roll of 
those holding under socage tenure that is, within a soke. 
Ewjlish Gilds (E. E. T. 8.), p. 475 (glos.). 
Also it ys ordeyned that the charter of the seld cite, 
with the ij. Socage Holies, shullen be putt In the comyn 
cofour. /, Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 376. 
socager, soccager (sok'aj-er), . [< socage + 
-er 1 .] A tenant by socage ; a socman. 
so-called (so'kald), a. See so called, under to*, 
adv. 
socaloin (so-kal'o-in), n. [< Soc(otra) (see Soco- 
tran) + aloin.] A bitter principle contained in 
Socotrine aloes. See aloin. 
SOCCage, soccager. See socage, socager. 
soccatedt, a. An erroneous form of socketed. 
Soccotrine, a. See Socotran. 
socdolager, n. See sockdolager. 
sociability (so'shia-bil'i-ti), n. [< F. sociability 
= Sp. todtmUdafm Pg. sociabilidade, < ML. 
sociabilita(t-)s, < it. sociabilis, sociable: see so- 
ciable.] Sociable disposition or tendency; dis- 
position or inclination for the society of others ; 
sociableness. 
Such then was the rootand foundation of the sociability 
of religion In the ancient world, so much envied by mod- 
era Pagans. Warburtm, Divine Legation, U. 1. 
The true ground (of society] Is the acceptance of condi- 
tions which came into existence by the sociability Inhe- 
rent in man, and were developed by man's spontaneous 
search after convenience. J. Morley, Rousseau, II. 183. 
sociable (so'shia-bl), a. and . [< F. sociable 
= Sp. sociable = Pg. sociavel = It. sociabile, < 
L. sociabilis, sociable, < sociare, associate, join, 
accompany: see satiate.] I. a. If. Capable of 
being conjoined; fit to be united in one body 
or company. 
Another law there Is, which toucheth them as they are 
sociable parts united into one body ; a law which bindeth 
them each to serve unto other's good. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, L 3. 
2. Disposed to associate or unite with others; 
inclined to company; of social disposition; so- 
cial ; of animals, social. 
Society Is no comfort 
To one not sociable. Shak., Cymbellne, Iv. 2. 13. 
3. Disposed to be friendly and agreeable in 
company ; frank and companionable ; conver- 
sible. 
This Macilente, signlor, begins to be more sociable on a 
sudden, methinks, than he was before. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, IT. 6. 
4f. Friendly: with reference to a particular 
individual. 
Is the king sociable, 
And bids thee live ? Beau, and Fl. 
The sociable and loving reproof of a Brother. 
Milton, Reformation In Eng., L 
6. Affording opportunities for sociability and 
friendly conversation. 
I will have no little, dirty, second-hand chariot new 
furbished, but a large, sociable, well painted coach. 
Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master, T. 1. 
6. Characterized by sociability and the ab- 
sence of reserve and formality : as, a sociable 
party. 7. Of, pertaining to, or constituting 
society; social. [Rare.] 
His divine discourses were chiefly spent In pressing men 
to exercise those graces which adorn the sociable state. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. x. 
Sociable weaver or weaver-bird. See vxaixr-bird, 
and cuts tinder Philetarus and Hne-nrst. =Sjrn. 2 and 3. 
Social, Sociable, friendly, communicative, familiar. So far 
as social and sociable arc like In meaning, sociable Is the 
stronger and more familiar. They nitty differ in that w- 
eial may express more of the permanent character, and 
sociable the temporary mood: man is a social being, but 
is not always inclined to be sociable. 
II. n. 1. An open four-wheeled carriage with 
seats facing each other. 
They set out on their little party of pleasure ; the chil- 
dren went with their mother, to their great delight, In the 
sociable. Miss Edgevorth, Belinda, xlx. 
2. A tricycle with seats for two persons side 
by side. 
