A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1482, 1611-1699
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Sopite, v. P.p. also sopit(e. [Late ME sospite p.p. (c1460), e.m.E. sopytyd p.p. (1542) put to sleep, rendered drowsy, sopiting pres. p. (1628) putting an end to, settling (a dispute), f. as Sopit p.p. and ppl. adj.] tr. To quash, cancel out, put an end to, extinguish. Also absol.Freq. in 18th and 19th c. Sc. esp. in legal and quasi-legal use.pres. 1640 Baillie I 250.
By quiet dealing, to sopite [? and] smother all forder reasoning of such purposes 1699 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. IV 443.
Seeing the design of submission is to sopite pleasp.p. 1482 Thanes of Cawdor 66.
Fullely remittit forgevin sopitit and annullit(b) 1611 Grant Chart. 210.
The forsaid assedatioun and letter of tak … to be … alluterlie eassit, sopit and annullit c1680 McWard Contendings 232.
We are in danger to be destroyed by Popish adversaries; let our differences amongst ourselves be sopite and smothered 1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 94.
The petitioner is served aire of taylȝie … whereby the said George Hume … hes interest in the said estaite and chartour chist is sopite and extinguishedabsol. 1684 Fountainhall Decis. I 288.
And the length of time does not sopite nor induce oblivion in revengeful men