Middle English Dictionary Entry
sotship(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sotship(e n. Also sothscipe, shotshipe. |
| Etymology | OE sotscipe |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. sotie n.
1.
Folly; foolishness; also, a folly.
Associated quotations
- 1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1131 : Hi heafdon forloron S' Iohes mynstre þurh him & þurh his mycele sotscipe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1510 : Þa ȝet nolde þe leod-king his sothscipe [Otho: folie] bi-læuen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)11566 : Al Sikelines quiden sotscipe heo heolden [Otho: al hire speche to sot-sipe ȝeode].
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)18/117 : Ah al þet ȝe seggeð is se sutel sotschipe, þet hit na wis mon, ah witlese, hit weneð.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)101/896 : Katerine..hwen ha þer bisit ant bisið þer uppon, swiken hire sot-schipes ant ure wil wurchen.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)185/11 : Ah ure sot schipe [Pep: sotschipp] is sutel.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)217/11 : Muchel sotschipe [Cleo: sotchipe] hit is leosen for an dei tene oðer tweolue.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2099 : Betere is i go miself and se Hweþer he sitten nou and wesseylen Or of ani shotshipe to-deyle Þis tid nithes also foles.