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To pull by the ears; to drag about. [Obs.] hak.

p. p. of Sow.

To sound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Souse. [Obs.] ryden.

See Souter. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

To solve, to clear up; as, to soyl all other texts. [Obs.] Tyndate.

Filled with care; anxious. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government . . . granting absolution to the nation." Froude.

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Serving to absolve; absolving. "An absolutory sentence." Ayliffe.

That may be absolved.

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifa…