Obs. [ad. older (now dial.) F. sotterie, soterie, f. sot SOT sb.1 Hence also MDu. sotterie (usually sotternie).] A piece of foolishness or folly.
1598. Florio, Mattarie, fooleries, madde tricks, sotteries.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 564. The reason … is a palpable sottery.
1663. S. Patrick, Parab. Pilgrim (1687), 437. To accuse the fraud of the first beginners of these Stories, and the folly of them that follow their Sotteries.
1731. Medley, Kolben’s Cape G. Hope, II. 46. The Governour … took an infinite pleasure in imposing all the fictions and sotteries he could upon every one.
