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† sooth-
representing the adj. or n. in various obsolete combs., as soothhead, truth, verity; soothquide, a true word or saying, a truth; a proverb; soothright(s adv., truly, verily; soothsaȝel a., truthful, veracious; soothship, truth; soothsinger (see quot.); soothtell a., soothsaying.
1340Ayenb. 105 Þet uerste word ous sseweþ þe langnesse of his eurebleuinge;..þe þridde: þe dyepnesse of his *zoþhede.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. v. §3 Sona swa hit forlæt *soðcwidas, swa folᵹaþ hit leasspellunga. c950Lindisf. Gosp. John x. 6 Ðis soðcuido vel ᵹedd cuæð ðæm se hælend. c1205Lay. 9524 Þa cnihtes..cudden him soð quides from Claudien þæm kæisere.
c1275Ibid. 13470 Ich wolle telle ou *soþrihtes. Ibid. 19068 Nas þar na more sohriht bote þat hit was day-liht.
c900tr. Baeda's Hist. iii. xvii. (1890) 206 Ic, swa swa *soðsaᵹal stærwritere [etc.]. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 131 Un-liȝel man selde liȝeð, and soð⁓saȝel man seið ofte soð.
c1320Cast. Love 1020 Ȝif he lyueþ in loue and in boxumnesse, In *soþschupe and in rihtwysnes.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 24 Who is an Inchanter? A *sooth⁓singer, by canting numbers; or a soothsayer, by calculating numbers.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 108 Now *sothtel Apollo..A menacing message..vttred. |