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▪ I. souper, n.1|ˈsuːpə(r)|
[f. soup n. or v.]
1. In Ireland, a Protestant clergyman seeking to make proselytes by means of dispensing soup in charity. Also attrib.
1854Tablet 11 Nov. 713/4 Every Souper, every tyrannical agent, every sworn Orangeman, will be a friend to this new order of things. 1861A. H. Clington Frank O'Donnell 205 On this account they were called souper-schools and their ministers soupers. 1890Cath. News 29 Nov. 3/4 Our readers are no doubt aware of the usual falsehoods employed by Soupers for this purpose.
2. One converted to Protestantism by the receipt of soup or other charity.
1871Froude Short Stud. II. 369 In a village below the lake is a congregation of Soupers—Protestant converts. 1896Daily News 20 Jan. 6/4 They cannot believe in any Catholic honestly becoming a Protestant. The convert must be a souper.
Hence ˈsoupering, ˈsouperism.
1861E. G. K. Browne Ann. Tract. Movem. (ed. 3) 241 Who has lately..distinguished himself as a partizan of ‘Souperism’ at Belmullet. 1896Cath. News 18 Jan. 4/5 He has thought of Irish Church ‘missions’, and believes that the system of soupering is carried on at Barmouth.
▪ II. ‖ souper, n.2|supe|
Also soupé.
[Fr.]
Esp. in France: an evening meal, supper; souper intime |ɛ̃tim| [‘intimate’]: for two, in privacy.
1787H. Maty tr. Riesbeck's Trav. Germany I. xx. 238 But, alas! so soon as the body is satisfied here, so soon does the mind long for the friendly dines and soupés of Paris. 1834Baboo I. i. 10 Those soupers are inestimable, and must not cease. 1851E. Ruskin Let. in W. James Order of Release (1948) ix. 169 The monk received us very kindly and soon after we had souper, milk, macaroni, salt fish, fritters and very bad wine. 1967J. Richardson Courtesans iii. 37/2 (caption) A courtesan bound for a souper intime. 1970Guardian 30 Jan. 9/1 The souper intime with..low lights, and music. 1976New Yorker 26 Jan. 40/3 By the time she returned, to give Joey a souper of boiled-liver chunks, macaroni, pig's maw, beef kidney, and rice, it was almost midnight.
▪ III. souper
obs. f. supper. |