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▪ I. † ˈsully, n. Obs.
Also 7 sulley.
[f. sully v.]
An act of sullying, soiling, or polluting (lit. and fig.); a stain, blemish.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. i. 39 You laying these slight sulleyes on my Sonne, As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' th' working. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋19 The Gold or Silver will stick to the least Sully that the Varnish may chance to make. 1711Addison Spect. No. 256 ⁋4 These little Spots and Sullies in its Reputation. 1742Fielding J. Andrews i. iv, Without the least sully of their virtue. 1762Franklin Lett., etc. Wks. 1840 V. 393 After the explosion, I could find neither any moisture nor any sully from the ink.
▪ II. sully, v.|ˈsʌlɪ|
Also 6, 8 sulley, 7 sullie.
[app. ad. F. souiller: see soil v.1]
1. trans. To pollute, defile; to soil, stain, tarnish.
a. in material sense. Now rare or poet.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 327 Sully the puritie and whitenesse of my Sheetes? 1615G. Sandys Trav. 295 The roofe and sides are..sullied..with the smoke of torches. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 164 A sky colored pellicule, sullied with dark spots. 1818Wordsw. Near Spring of Hermitage 12 Rains, that make each rill a torrent, Neither sully it nor swell. 1885Manch. Exam. 25 Mar. 3/2 The delicate white of the vellum cover which a careless touch might sully.
absol.1601Holland Pliny II. 473 [How] that if one rule paper..therewith [sc. silver], it will draw blacke lines, and sullie as it doth.
b. in immaterial sense.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. iv. 6 The ouer-daring Talbot Hath sullied all his glosse of former Honor By this vnheedfull..aduenture. 1612Two Noble K. i. ii. 5 Before we furthur Sully our glosse of youth. 1657Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer (1661) 33 Christmas and Epiphany..holy Church held for such high times of joy and Festivity, that they would not have one day among them sullied by..sorrow and fasting. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v., To Sully the Fancy, to fill it with nasty, filthy, or impure Thoughts. 1729G. Shelvocke Artillery v. 355, I will not sully my Page with any Rehearsal of them. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxiv. II. 475 The purity of his virtue was sullied by excessive vanity. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 529 His life had been sullied by a great domestic crime. 1874Green Short Hist. v. §2 (1882) 226 A merciless massacre sullied the fame of his earlier exploits.
†2. intr. To become soiled or tarnished. Obs.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 84 Looke you Francis, your white Canuas doublet will sulley. 1654Z. Coke Logick Pref., The Enamel of these Gayeties and Gauds, Sully and soon grow Dusky. 1670Sir Sackville Crow in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 15 The silke sleizie and not Naples, which will soone grown rough, gather dust and sullie.
Hence ˈsullying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1628Ford Lover's Mel. ii. ii, The purest whitenesse is no such defence Against the sullying foulenesse of that fury. 1659C. Noble Mod. Answ. to Immod. Queries To Rdr., They are also sullyings and discolorings of the sacred memory of the dead. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 337 The sullying and foulness of the Floor. 1715Gay Trivia ii. 32 Three sullying trades avoid with equal care. 1842Manning Serm. vi. (1848) I. 84 He that leaves upon driven snow a dark and sullying touch. 1871Tennyson Last Tourn. 679 Thro' that sullying of our Queen. |
