Part 574

Addison.

3. To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Congreve.

Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing.

Byron.

Syn. -- To soften; assuage; allay; compose; mollify; tranquilize; pacify; mitigate.

Sooth"er (?), n. One who, or that which, soothes.

Sooth"fast` (?), a. [Sooth + fast, that is, fast or firm with respect to truth.] Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. [Archaic] -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. [Archaic] "In very soothfastness." Chaucer.

Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience!

Sir W. Scott.

Sooth"fast`, adv. Soothly; really; in fact. [Archaic]

I care not if the pomps you show Be what they soothfast appear.

Emerson.

Sooth"ing (?), a. & n. from Soothe, v.

Sooth"ing*ly, adv. In a soothing manner.

Sooth"ly (?), adv. In truth; truly; really; verily. [Obs.] "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.

Sooth"ness, n. Truth; reality. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sooth"say` (?), v. i. [Sooth + say; properly to say truth, tell the truth.] To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay." Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell." Milton.

Sooth"say`, n. 1. A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. Omen; portent. Having

God turn the same to good soothsay.

Spenser.

Sooth"say`er (?), n. 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

2. (Zoöl.) A mantis.

Sooth"say`ing, n. 1. A true saying; truth. [Obs.]

2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.

A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.