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Sort (?), n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.] Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.]
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By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. Chaucer.
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Let blockish Ajax draw
The sort to fight with Hector. Shak.
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Sort, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors, sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery, Sort lot.]
1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, “a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.”
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2. Manner; form of being or acting.
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Which for my part I covet to perform,
In sort as through the world I did proclaim. Spenser.
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Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them. Hooker.
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I'll deceive you in another sort. Shak.
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To Adam in what sort
Shall I appear? Milton.
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I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. Dryden.
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3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.] Shak.
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4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.] “A sort of shepherds.” Spenser. “A sort of steers.” Spenser. “A sort of doves.” Dryden. “A sort of rogues.” Massinger.
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A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,
Vowed against his voyage. Chapman.
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5. A pair; a set; a suit. Johnson.
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6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
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Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed. -- To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index.
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Syn. -- Kind; species; rank; condition. -- Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the same family, or bound together by some natural affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere assemblage. the two words are now used to a great extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language.
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As when the total kind
Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
Came summoned over Eden to receive
Their names of there. Milton.
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None of noble sort
Would so offend a virgin. Shak.
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Sort (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sorting.]
1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, “to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.”
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Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. Sir I. Newton.
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2. To reduce to order from a confused state. Hooker.
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3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
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Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects. Bacon.
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She sorts things present with things past. Sir J. Davies.
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4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
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That he may sort out a worthy spouse. Chapman.
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I'll sort some other time to visit you. Shak.
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5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
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I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. Shak.
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Sort, v. i.
1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
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Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. Woodward.
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The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company. Bacon.
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2. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
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They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. Bacon.
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Things sort not to my will. herbert.
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I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. Sir W. Scott.
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