Sothe (? or ?), a. Sooth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ So"thi*ac (?), Soth"ic (?) }, a. Of or pertaining to Sothis, the
Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star;
canicular.
Sothiac, or Sothic, year (Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and
6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained
365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal
to 1,461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a. d. 139.
So"til*te (?), n. Subtlety. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sot"ted (?), a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted. [Obs.]
"This sotted priest." Chaucer.
Sot"ter*y (?), n. Folly. [Obs.] Gauden.
Sot"tish (?), a. [From Sot.] Like a sot; doltish; very foolish;
drunken.
How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!
Swift.
Syn. -- Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; infatuate.
-- Sot"tish*ly, adv. -- Sot"tish*ness, n.
||Sot`to vo"ce (?). [It.] 1. (Mus.) With a restrained voice or moderate
||force; in an undertone.