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Soup, Sowp, Sup, v.¹ Also: soupe, suppe. P.t. also sowpet, souppitt, swippit. P.p. also swpit, soupt. [ME and e.m.E. soupe (c1290), supe (c1300), sop- (14th c.), sowp (a1400), suppe (15th c.), OF soper, souper (c1130 and 13th c. in Larousse); Soup n.²] intr. To eat an evening meal, to have supper. Also const. of, on (the food).Freq., to soup and dine.(1) pres. c1460 Dietary 8.
Apon thi slepe drink nocht of thi cowpe … And oys neuir late for to sowp c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxix 45.
How glaid that ever I dyne or sowp 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3732 (Ch.).
Let vs ga soup with Sensualitie 1548 Treas. Acc. IX 261.
He gat leif to soupe and disione in the toun 1559–60 St. A. Kirk S. 21.
He seis Alexander … haunt to the hows of Elizabeth … ,eatand, drinkand, and quhiles sowpand 1573 Crim. Trials I i 511.
As I shall answer unto God, with whom I hope this night to sowp 1597 Edinb. B. Rec. V 186.
His Maiestie is to … sowp with the toun in the ministers ludgeings c1620 Boyd Fl. Zion Exc. xxv/2.
Too many on this earth both soup and dine, But know not God [etc.](b) 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 52.
Suppep.t. a1500 K. Hart 747.
Thai sowpit sone and syn thai bownit to bede c1515 Asl. MS I 240/20.
He come & dynit and sowpit 1506–7 Treas. Acc. III 374.
That nycht the King sowpit at Menegauf 1547 Digest Justiciary Proc. A 69.
Normane Leslie … dynit & sowpit with ȝow 1570 Cal. Sc. P. III 539.
Sowpet 1558-66 Knox II 13.
Thai sowped skarslie, becaus thair schippis war takein, in the quhilk was thair victuellis 1597 Household Bks. Jas. VI and Anne 4 March.
His majestie desgunit and daynit in Halyruidhous and soupitt in Brenteland(b) a1578 Pitsc. I 324/24.
The king quhene he had suppit lyttill quhill past to his chamber(c) 1617 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 117.
James … cam to Dudop lait and swippit thairp.p. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. xxvi 26.
And quhen thai soupet [W. hem soupynge, P. while thei soupeden], Jesus tuke brede, and blessit, and brak 15.. Clar. i 1439.
When they had souppit and maid rycht merrie cheir a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 113/11.
He tuk the cwpe, efter that he hed swpit 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 1 Oct.
Those whow have dynit and soupt in your lo: house this weik(2) 1535 Stewart 49179.
[King Robert] Of grene herbis rycht oft did soupe and dyne 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 88.
We suped on a soup, fried egges, roosted chaistains, and apples with peirs

b. reflex. 15.. Clar. i 944.
As Phebus declynit in the west, Thay soupit them, and bounit syn to rest

c. ellipt., as tr. c1475 Wall. v 178.
Twa scheipe thai tuk besid thaim of a fauld, Ordanyt to soupe [1570 Ordanit the supper] in to that sembly hauld