Also north. and Sc. 4–6 sare, 5–6 sair. [f. SORE a.1 Cf. OFris. sêria, OS. sêrian (MLG. sêren), MDu. seeren (Du. zeeren), OHG., MHG. sêren (mod.G. versehren), ON. and Icel. sǽra (Sw. såra, Da. saare). OE. had sárian to be pained or grieved.] trans. To make sore, in various senses; to give (physical or mental) pain to; † to wound.

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13[?].  Cursor M., 14147 (Gött.). Al if þai soght fand þai na bote, Þe seke him saris fra heued to fote.

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c. 1475.  Rauf Coilȝear, 656. He socht in sa sadly, quhill sum of thame he saird.

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c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xxvi. 566. I fere to sore the kyng.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 109. Ane wolf … quhen scho was sarit with the houndis.

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[1583.  Fulke, Def. Tr. Script., i. 56. If wee had a participle in Englishe to say, sored or botched, we woulde vse it.]

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 38. Her bleeding brest … Was closed vp, as it had not bene sor’d [1596 bor’d].

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1847.  H. Bushnell, Christian Nurture, iii. (1861), 46. Religion itself, pressed down upon them till they are fatally sored by its impossible claims, becomes [etc.].

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1894.  F. Remington, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 356/1. Some of the men are on foot, from soring their horses’ backs.

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