Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1722-1819, 1870
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SOPITE, v. Sc. usage, chiefly legal: to settle, to adjust, put an end to (a dispute, controversy, etc.) Pa.p., ppl.adj. sopite, †sopit, settled.Rnf. 1722 Caldwell Papers (M.C.) I. 247:
One who was capable of sopiting the differences among themselves.Ayr. 1744 Ayr Presb. Reg. MS. (10 May):
No presumptions of the guilt made appear against him therefore they judge it sopit.Abd. 1771 Reg. Ho. MSS. (Sasines):
He grants the foresaid heritable tollerance and servitude to be extinguished and sopite.Sc. 1819 Scott Bride of Lamm. xv.:
Such a union would sopite the heavier part of his unadjusted claims.Sc. 1870 Beauties Upper Strathearn 39:
The creation of a new title in the person of the Earl of Strathearn and Monteith, which should, as it were, absorb and — as lawyers call it — sopite both.
