資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      A week or so will probably reconcile us.    --Gay.

   Note: See the Note under {Ill}, adv.

   {So} . . . {as}. So is now commonly used as a demonstrative
      correlative of as when it is the puprpose to emphasize the
      equality or comparison suggested, esp. in negative
      assertions, and questions implying a negative answer. By
      Shakespeare and others so . . . as was much used where as
      . . . as is now common. See the Note under {As}, 1.

            So do, as thou hast said.             --Gen. xviii.
                                                  5.

            As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. --Ps.
                                                  ciii. 15.

            Had woman been so strong as men.      --Shak.

            No country suffered so much as England. --Macaulay.

   {So far}, to that point or extent; in that particular. ``The
      song was moral, and so far was right.'' --Cowper.

   {So far forth}, as far; to such a degree. --Shak. --Bacon.

   {So forth}, further in the same or similar manner; more of
      the same or a similar kind. See {And so forth}, under
      {And}.

   {So, so}, well, well. ``So, so, it works; now, mistress, sit
      you fast.'' --Dryden. Also, moderately or tolerably well;
      passably; as, he succeeded but so so. ``His leg is but so
      so.'' --Shak.

   {So that}, to the end that; in order that; with the effect or
      result that.

   {So then}, thus then it is; therefore; the consequence is.