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† ˈsottery Obs.
[ad. older (now dial.) F. sotterie, soterie, f. sot sot n.1 Hence also MDu. sotterie (usually sotternie).]
A piece of foolishness or folly.
1598Florio, Mattarie, fooleries, madde tricks, sotteries. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 564 The reason..is a palpable sottery. 1663S. Patrick Parab. Pilgrim (1687) 437 To accuse the fraud of the first beginners of these Stories, and the folly of them that follow their Sotteries. 1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 46 The Governour..took an infinite pleasure in imposing all the fictions and sotteries he could upon every one. |