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verb

Soar v. i. (past & past part. soared; pres. part. soaring)

To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings. "When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled."

Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. "Where the deep transported mind may soar." "Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune."

(Aeronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely without loss of altitude.

noun

Soar n. The act of soaring; upward flight. "This apparent soar of the hooded falcon."

adjective

Soar adj. See 3d Sore. (Obs.)

Soar adj. See Sore, reddish brown.

Soar falcon. (Zool.) See Sore falcon, under Sore.

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Etymology of 'Soar'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Soar" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jack. "Ah, ha, I see her two masts plainly, with mine own eyes. And they soar too tall for a merchant trader. Her sails, too,—she spreads them like great wings. Who else will it be than Captain Stede Bonnet in ...

— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine

... Touraine. Richelieu's late Keeper of the Seals deemed it something to have escaped an open disgrace, to have resumed the eminent post he had formerly occupied under the Crown, and the government of a large province. Yet did his ambition soar far higher still: but he kept it in check, and merely postponed its flight for a less stormy hour—obeyed the Queen, skilfully remained friends with her, and likewise kept on very good terms with her Prime Minister—biding ...

— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... dance, I left my col'ring all to chance; Which oft (as I may proudly state) With Nature war'd at such a rate, As left no mortal hue or stain Of base, corrupting flesh, to chain The Soul to Earth; but, free as light, E'en let her soar till out ...

— The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems • Washington Allston

... the canary could sing the sweetest, and every one of them, for some reason or other, was in his own opinion superior to his fellows. After several days of fruitless discussion it was finally decided that whichever bird could soar the highest should be, once and ...

— Peeps at Many Lands: Norway • A.F. Mockler-Ferryman

... mind numerical mysticism, different from numerical imagination heretofore studied. Here, number is no longer the means that mind employs in order to soar in time and space; it becomes a symbol and material for fanciful construction. Hence arise those "sacred numbers" teeming in the old oriental religions:—3, symbol of the trinity; 4, symbol of the cosmic elements; 7, representing the moon and the planets, etc.[101] Besides these ...

— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot

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