in sort

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in sort

  1. (obsolete) In company (with). [15th–16th c.]
  2. (obsolete) In a way; to some extent. [16th–18th c.]
  3. (obsolete) In such a way (as). [16th–17th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      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 []

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