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soured, ppl. a.|saʊəd|
[f. sour v.]
1. Rendered sour or acid; fermented, leavened.
1382Wyclif Exod. xii. 15 Who so euer etith sowred breed. 1535Coverdale Exod. xiii. 7 That there be no..sowred bred sene in all thy quarters. 1659Gauden Serm. (1660) 120 As sowred vinegar is made of the sweetest wine. 1670Covel in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.) 120 With leaven of salt and sower'd honey and oil. 1721R. Keith tr. T. à Kempis, Solil. Soul x. 177, I am like a soured Vessel and wholly unworthy of the Inpouring of thy good Spirit. 1873Tristram Moab xiii. 238 A bowl of soured milk—a most delicious draught on a broiling day.
2. Of persons: Embittered, crabbed.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair l, Miss Clapp..is declared by the soured old lady to be an unbearable and impudent little minx. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret iii. i, He returned to his father's house, a soured man at the outset of life. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird II. i. 24 Even a soured old maid such as I could but yield to her charm.
Hence ˈsouredness.
1858Gilfillan in Wyatt's Poet. Wks. p. xvi, In his Satires we find what we may call a mellowed souredness of spirit. |