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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun In early English law, the right of local jurisdiction, generally one of the feudal rights of lordship.
  • noun The district over which soke jurisdiction was exercised.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An old spelling of soak, suck.
  • noun The power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in a manor; jurisdiction of causes; also, the limits of such jurisdiction.
  • noun The liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
  • noun Same as soken
  • noun Same as soken, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eng. Law) See soc.
  • noun One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete Any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines.
  • noun obsolete A district under a particular jusridiction.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin sōca, from Old English sōcn, act of seeking; see sāg- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English soke, from Medieval Latin (Anglo-Latin) sōca "right of jurisdiction", from Old English sōcn ("jurisdiction, prosecution", literally "act of seeking"), from Proto-Germanic *sōknō (“seeking, inquiry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sāg(')- (“to track”). Cognates: see English soken. More at sake, seek.

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  2. gallbladder
  3. pericardium
  4. scrotum
  5. soc
  6. stinger

variants (1)

Variants

  1. soc

relateds (4)

relateds

  1. socage
  2. sokeland
  3. sokeman
  4. soken

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