suage
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suage (third-person singular simple present suages, present participle suaging, simple past and past participle suaged)
- (obsolete) To assuage.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 549–559:
- [...] Anon they move
In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mode
Of flutes and soft recorders — such as raised
To height of noblest temper heroes old
Arming to battle, and instead of rage
Deliberate valour breathed, firm, and unmoved
With dread of death to fligh or foul retreat;
Nor wanting power to mitigate and suage
With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase
Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain
From mortal or immortal minds. [...]
- 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC:
- suage the crowd
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French soue (“rope”) + -age, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin soca, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *soucā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”), see also Sanskrit सुवति (suvati).[1]
Noun edit
suage m (plural suages)
- hem, border of a plate or cup
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
suage m (plural suages)
- humidity sweating from something
- S’il fait chaud et que tout soit fermé: on dit, il y a du suage, c’est le suage du bois.
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Etymology 3 edit
From Old French sieu + -age, see suif.
Noun edit
suage m (plural suages)
References edit
- “suage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading edit
- “suage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.