Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
soke . - noun An abbreviation of
Society .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
- noun Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
- noun engraving An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, law, obsolete The
lord 's power orprivilege of holding acourt in adistrict , as inmanor orlordship ;jurisdiction ofcauses , and the limits of that jurisdiction. - noun UK, obsolete
Liberty or privilege oftenants excused from customary burdens. - noun UK, obsolete An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by
millers ofgrinding all thecorn used within the manor or township in which themill stands. - noun slang
Sociology orsocial science
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Examples
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Closet heterosexual, Ken Mehlman, believes in soc ...
06/27/2005 2005
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Ridicule and bullyism have kept her constrained for far too long, with the effect that civ.soc. is now a nervous wreck, timid, with no self-esteem.
Church and State, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I "republished" this in soc. politics, which has been dormant lately.
April 1st, 2007 2007
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Discussion in soc. history.what-if (alternate history), on what would have happened if Nazi Germany had been where Canada actually is -- one of the whackier ideas I've seen there:
April 1st, 2007 2007
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We've all had that friendship that was cut short for whatever reason - because your family moved, because you switched jobs, because you were a "greaser" and they were a "soc" - and we're left to wonder: what might have been?
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It is worthy of note that Domesday Book records also the 'soc' jurisdiction and freedom from taxation which are mentioned in the 'Athelstan' charters.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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At that point, they'll talk themselves blue in the face about 'soc'ilsm,' 'czars,'
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After the war she returned to writing wedding announcements and cheesecake recipes for the "soc" section.
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"soc" Groups primarily addressing social issues and socializing.
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"soc" Groups primarily addressing social issues and socializing.
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