Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades.
A Sotadic verse or poem.
Sweet.
1. A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.
2. The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.
suth'ernwood, A plant agreeing in most parts with the wormwood. The southernwood is the Artemisia abrotanum, a different species form the wormwood.
Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.
Soto
Encyclopedia Britannica
SOTO. See De Soto.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 277
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Folly.
1. Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; very foolish. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!
2. Dull with intemperance.
Stupidly; senselessly; without reason.
1. Dullness in the exercise reason; stupidity. Few consider into what a degree of sottishness and confirmed ignorance men may sin themselves.
2. Stupidity from intoxication.
Sotto voce
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.
2. Spoken low or in an undertone.
Fool Roget’s Thesaurus §501
N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, tom noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot- poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, gothamite, lummox, rube, men of boeotia, wise men of gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity) 503, greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror
Phr. fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangent, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia
Drunkenness Roget’s Thesaurus §959
N. drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender*, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin*, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning*, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker*, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchal, bacchante, devotee to bacchus, bum*, guzzler, tavern haunter
V. get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill*, soak*, sot, bum*, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush*, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill*, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head
Adj. drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent|, squiffy*, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed*, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up*, lushy*, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as david's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping
Phr. nunc est bibendum, "bacchus ever fair and young", "drink down all unkindness", "o that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains"
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
3 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Sot”
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Peruda,
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”