▪ I. soken Now Hist.
(ˈsəʊk(ə)n)
Forms: 1 (9) socn, 3 socne, sockne, 6 socon(e; 4 so(o)kne, sokene, 5 sokyn, 5– soken.
[OE. sócn, = ON. and Icel. sókn (Norw. sokn; Sw. socken, Da. sogn parish), Goth. sōkns search, enquiry (cf. OHG. sôhni), f. sōk- stem of OE. sécan, ON. sœ́kja, etc., to seek. See also the comb. church-soken.]
† 1. An attack or assault. Obs. rare.
| Beowulf 1777 Ic þære socne singales wæᵹ modceare micle. |
† 2. Resort to, or visiting of, a place; habitual going or haunting. Obs.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 508 Ða towende se biscop þæt weofod, and þa dwollican socne mid-ealle adwæscte. a 1023 Wulfstan Hom. (1883) 134 We..ure synna..ᵹeorne betan mid..ælmessan & mid ciriclicere socne. c 1205 Lay. 2365 Þat inne swiðe feire stude from socne þes folkes. c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 261 Heo þouȝte, for heo was so i-knowe,..Þe lasse sockne heo hadde [= would have] of hire folie. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 463/2 Sookne, or custome of hauntynge.., frequentacio, concursus. |
† b. spec. Resort of tenants or others to a particular mill to have their corn ground; the right of the mill to such custom. (Cf. soke1 3.) Obs.
| c 1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 67 Gret soken hath this meller, out of doute, With whete and malt, of al the lond aboute. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 9 b, That maner of grynding is called loue Socone, and the lordes tenauntes be called bonde socon. 1591 Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 175 Dareley mylne, with the soken and suite there to belonginge. |
† 3. Right of prosecution, legal investigation, or jurisdiction. Cf. soke1 1. Obs.
| a 1012 Laws of æthelred iii. xi, Nan man naᵹe nane socne ofer cynges þeᵹen buton cyng sylf. a 1066 in Kemble Codex Dipl. IV. 200 Swa ðæt nan scyrᵹerefe oððe motᵹerefe ðar habban æni socne oððe ᵹemot buton ðes abbudes aᵹen hæse. [1114–8 Laws Hen. I, xix. 2 (Liebermann), Omnium terrarum, quas rex in dominio suo habet, socnam pariter habet.] 1155 in Anglia VII. 220 Þæt ic hæbbe heom ᵹeunnon..saca & socne..ofer heore aᵹene men. |
† b. (See quot.) Obs.—1
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 95 Soka, sute of court, and þerof comeþ Sokene, but Sokene oþerwhile is forto aske lawe in þe gretter court. |
4. = soke1 2.
| c 1030 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) Jan. 15 Ðis is seo socn into Scyre-burna, mid folc-rihte. [c 1133–54 Libertas Lond. 4 Donec custos illius socne, in qua manserit, de recto tenendo uicecomiti defecerit.] 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 78 Rondulf þe Reue of Rotelondes sokene. 1393 Ibid. C. iii. 111 Bette þe budele of banneburies sokne. 1465 Paston Lett. II. 204 Yt ys told me that ȝong Heydon reysyth mych pepyl in the sokyn. 1485 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 284/1 The Castell, Mannor and Lordshipp of Kimbalton, with the Sokyn of the same. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 535 About Venice and all that tract, the Willowes serue the turne and none else, by reason that the whole soken standeth so much vpon water. a 1670 in Blount Law Dict. s.v. Rime, In the Countrey hard was we That in our Soken shrews should be. 1861 Hook Lives Abps. I. v. 245 By his right of lord of the socn he could try and execute thieves found upon any of his estates. 1874 Stubbs Const. Hist. (1875) I. v. 80 The lord of a soken and patron of hundreds of servants and followers. |
▪ II. soken
obs. f. pa. pple. soak v.; var. soaken v. Obs.