in sort

prep_phrase — 3 senses

in sort

prep_phrase
1

Obsolete In company (with).

2

Obsolete In a way; to some extent.

3

Obsolete In such a way (as).

  • Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly, / Where he slept soundly void of euill thought, / And with false shewes abuse his fantasy, / In sort as he him schooled priuily […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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