All full of chirking was this sorry place.
Chaucer.
3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace."
Chaucer.
Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.
Milton.
Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
Sir W. Scott.
Syn. -- Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy;
dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
||Sors (?), n.; pl. Sortes (#). [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination
||by means of lots.
Sortes Homericæ or Virgilianæ [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a form
of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first
passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or
Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as
indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later
times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.
Sort (?), n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.] Chance; lot;
destiny. [Obs.]
By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance].
Chaucer.
Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.
Shak.
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Sort, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors, sorti, a lot,
part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series, and cf. Assort,
Consort, Resort, Sorcery, Sort lot.] 1. A kind or species; any number
or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same
or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of
horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.