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Quotation dates: 1450-1646
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Soupit, Sowp-, Solp-, Sopit, p.p. Also: soup-, sowpyt, sowlpit, sowipit, sop(p)ed, soippit. [P.p. of Soup v.4 to soak, saturate, and/or Soup v.2 3 to consume, swallow up. Cf. Sopit p.p. and ppl. adj.] fig. Steeped in, consumed, eaten up with, vice, etc.(1) a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 450.
Sowpit in syte, I say with sair siching a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1011.
Allace, my hert is now sowpit in site 1513 Doug. iii ix 80.
Sowpit [L. sepultus] in sleip, his nek furth of the cave He straucht 1513 Doug. vi vii 1.
Thus quhil the portar in sleip sowpit lyis 1513 Doug. viii i 24.
With mynd sowpyt in cuyr [L. turbatus] and hevy thocht 1513 Doug. ix iv 58.
Sowpyt [Sm. Soupyt; L. soluti] in wyne and sleip baith man and syre 1531 Bell. Boece II 101.
Sowpit in all maner of vice [L. omni scelerum genere inuolutus] a1568 Bann. in Bannatyne MS 230b/16.
My hairt that nevir wes thirlit vnto wicht In deidly dwalmys sowpit is for evir a1570-86 Maitland in Maitland Folio MS 41/13.
We ar so sowpit [Maitl. Q. soppit] in sensualite c1590 J. Stewart 93/505.
In sorrou sowpit syching sad and sair(b) 1531 Bell. Boece I 83.
This Ewin … so effeminat and soupit in lust(c) c1450-2 Howlat 42 (A).
I herd ane petuos appele with ane pure mane, Solpit [B. sowlpit] in sorowe a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 283 (Asl.).
Grene ȝouth and innocens … Sa solpit is in syn and influens 1533 Bell. Livy I 72/14.
Thai war solpit at hame in sleuth and idilnes 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 118.
Thay … hes vs left all solpit in to cair(d) 1528 Lynd. Dreme 998.
Quhen comoun weill so sopit was in sorrow 1531 Bell. Boece I liv.
Men, that ar nocht … yit ovir mekill sopit in sensuall pleseir 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 37/3.
The … laubirs … gart al my body be cum imbecille ande verye, ande my spreit be cum sopit in sadnes 1638 Henderson Serm. 391.
Sall the soul be evermore soped in trouble because of this?(e) 1646 Glasgow B. Rec. II 105.
From spiritis long sopped in malignancie(2) 1531 Bell. Boece II 257.
The remanent of thame sowpit with sleip war al murdrest in thair beddis 1533 Boece 376.
Scottis … war nakit of armys and sowpit with glutony and wynis [L. vino & crapula sepultos] 1533 Bell. Livy II 7/16.
Icelius, sowpit with hevy teris [L. lacrimabundus] went amang the pepil a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 270 (W).
With sichis soippit and oresette Like to ane fische fast in the nette In dead-thraw vndeceist
b. In quasi-lit. contexts. a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1038 (Harl.).
In locht of lamentacioun Thow sowipit [Arund. sowpit, Asl. sopit] wes 1513 Doug. v xiv 54.
Sowpit [L. soporatum] in Stix the forcy hellys see
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