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▪ I. soken Now Hist.|ˈsəʊk(ə)n| Forms: 1 (9) socn, 3 socne, sockne, 6 socon(e; 4 so(o)kne, sokene, 5 sokyn, 5– soken. [OE. sócn, = ON. and Icel. sókn (Norw. sokn; Sw. socken, Da. sogn parish), Goth. sōkns search, enquiry (cf. OHG. sôhni), f. sōk- stem of OE. sécan, ON. sœ́kja, etc., to seek. See also the comb. church-soken.] †1. An attack or assault. Obs. rare.
Beowulf 1777 Ic þære socne singales wæᵹ modceare micle. †2. Resort to, or visiting of, a place; habitual going or haunting. Obs.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 508 Ða towende se biscop þæt weofod, and þa dwollican socne mid-ealle adwæscte. a1023Wulfstan Hom. (1883) 134 We..ure synna..ᵹeorne betan mid..ælmessan & mid ciriclicere socne. c1205Lay. 2365 Þat inne swiðe feire stude from socne þes folkes. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 261 Heo þouȝte, for heo was so i-knowe,..Þe lasse sockne heo hadde [= would have] of hire folie. c1440Promp. Parv. 463/2 Sookne, or custome of hauntynge.., frequentacio, concursus. †b. spec. Resort of tenants or others to a particular mill to have their corn ground; the right of the mill to such custom. (Cf. soke1 3.) Obs.
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 67 Gret soken hath this meller, out of doute, With whete and malt, of al the lond aboute. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 9 b, That maner of grynding is called loue Socone, and the lordes tenauntes be called bonde socon. 1591Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 175 Dareley mylne, with the soken and suite there to belonginge. †3. Right of prosecution, legal investigation, or jurisdiction. Cf. soke1 1. Obs.
a1012Laws of æthelred iii. xi, Nan man naᵹe nane socne ofer cynges þeᵹen buton cyng sylf. a1066in Kemble Codex Dipl. IV. 200 Swa ðæt nan scyrᵹerefe oððe motᵹerefe ðar habban æni socne oððe ᵹemot buton ðes abbudes aᵹen hæse. [1114–8Laws Hen. I, xix. 2 (Liebermann), Omnium terrarum, quas rex in dominio suo habet, socnam pariter habet.] 1155in Anglia VII. 220 Þæt ic hæbbe heom ᵹeunnon..saca & socne..ofer heore aᵹene men. †b. (See quot.) Obs.—1
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 95 Soka, sute of court, and þerof comeþ Sokene, but Sokene oþerwhile is forto aske lawe in þe gretter court. 4. = soke1 2.
c1030in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) Jan. 15 Ðis is seo socn into Scyre-burna, mid folc-rihte. [c1133–54Libertas Lond. 4 Donec custos illius socne, in qua manserit, de recto tenendo uicecomiti defecerit.] 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 78 Rondulf þe Reue of Rotelondes sokene. 1393Ibid. C. iii. 111 Bette þe budele of banneburies sokne. 1465Paston Lett. II. 204 Yt ys told me that ȝong Heydon reysyth mych pepyl in the sokyn. 1485Rolls of Parlt. VI. 284/1 The Castell, Mannor and Lordshipp of Kimbalton, with the Sokyn of the same. 1601Holland Pliny I. 535 About Venice and all that tract, the Willowes serue the turne and none else, by reason that the whole soken standeth so much vpon water. a1670in Blount Law Dict. s.v. Rime, In the Countrey hard was we That in our Soken shrews should be. 1861Hook Lives Abps. I. v. 245 By his right of lord of the socn he could try and execute thieves found upon any of his estates. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. (1875) I. v. 80 The lord of a soken and patron of hundreds of servants and followers. ▪ II. soken obs. f. pa. pple. soak v.; var. soaken v. Obs. |