Forms: α. 3 soriourni, 6 sourgorne. β. 3–4 soiorni, 4–6 soi-, sojorne (6 -eorne), sui-, sujorn(e; 3 soiourny, 3–7 soi-, sojourne (5 souj-), 4–5 soiurne, 4– sojourn. γ. 4 suggeorne, 5 -eourne, 5–6 sogeourn(e; 5 suggourne, sugiorne; 4 sugerne, 6 suggerne. δ. 5–6 sudiorn(e, 6 sudjourne, sudgeorne; 5–6 sudgern(e. [ad. OF. surjurner, sorjorner, and sujurner, sojorner, -journer (also sejorner, -journer, mod.F. séjourner) in the same sense. The forms in su-, so-, like It. soggiornare, represent a pop.L. *subdiurnāre (cf. med.L. subjornare, subjurnare), f. diurnum daily, day; those in sur-, sor- either represent a form with super- (cf. med.L. superdiurnare) or have been assimilated to other words with this prefix.]
1. intr. To make a temporary stay in a place; to remain or reside for a time.
α. c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 147. To þe grete Abbeie to pountenie forto soriourni þere, he sende þis holi Man.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VI. cciv. (1811), 214. Whanne kynge Edmunde hadde a season sourgoyned [sic] at London, he than made towarde the Danys.
β. c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 114. Þe king wende in-to Normandie for-to soiorni þere.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3771. Sco send him son in-til aran,… Þar-to suiorn for hir sake.
c. 1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 1374. For als gestes we here soiourne Awhile, til we sal hethen tourne.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 156. Whan watry Phebus had his purpoos take For a sesoun to sojourne in Aquarye.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, IV. xix. 143. They soiourned there a vij nyghte.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 133. Valladoleto where we nowe suiorne.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 81. There we dyd al soiourne two dayes.
1593. Bilson, Govt. Christ’s Ch., 7. Isaac and Iacob … soiourned as strangers and peregrines first in the land of Canaan.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., III. 201. All the Papists which inhabited, or sojourned within the said limits.
1732. Lediard, Sethos, II. VII. 122. He desir’d leave to sojourn a month.
1781. Cowper, Conversat., 530. The night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here.
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, I. ii. Several months ago I was sojourning at Neapolis.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., xiv. He was sojourning at an hotel in Bond Street.
refl. 1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 3. The Englis kynges turned, þei mot do nomore, Bot soiorned þam a while in rest at Bangore.
γ. c. 1325. Orfeo, 47. Orpheo sugerneth in Crassens, That is a cyte of noble defens.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxx. 136. Þare he suggeournes when him list.
c. 1440. Generydes, 572. Lenger ther he thought not to sogeourne.
1530. Rastell, Bk. Purgat., II. xx. 4. I was in dyvers cytees … longe tyme abydyng and suggernyng.
1535. Coverdale, Ezek. xiv. 7. A straunger, that sogeourneth in Israel.
δ. 1375. Barbour, Bruce, XVI. 47. Thai sudiornyt thair dayis thre In gret myrth and in rialte.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, V. xii. 182. He … sudgerned there a tyme.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XIII. xi. 80. Indigites, quhilk is als mekill to say As God induellar at thar sudiornis ay.
b. transf. or fig. of things.
c. 1366. Chaucer, A. B. C., 160. Vn-to þat court þou me aiourne,… Þer as þat merci euere shal soiourne.
1587. Turberv., Trag. Tales (1837), 26. Thus divers thoughts did sojourne in his brest.
1593. Drayton, Ecl., vi. 13. Mirth is farre away, Nor may it soiourne with sad discontent.
1796. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), I. 206. Iron in its metallic state, sojourning with water always extricates inflammable air.
† c. To be a lodger in another’s house. Obs.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 19. Once charged with children, or likelie to bee, giue ouer to sudgerne, that thinkest to thee.
† 2. To make stay; to tarry, delay. Obs.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XVII. 83. Whan I seyȝ þis, I soiourned nouȝte but shope me to renne.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. 89. I wil no longer make digressioun, Nor in fables no more as now soiourne.
c. 1477. Caxton, Jason, 36 b. Hit behoueth no lenger to soiourne, for ye muste go or sende unto him with alle diligence.
1594. Dr. Faustus, in Thoms, E. Eng. Prose Rom. (1858), III. 403. Because the matter was as strange as true I have sojourned a little too long in it.
† 3. trans. To lodge; to rest or quarter (horses); to have as a lodger. Also transf. Obs.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 41. Whan thei weren thus sojorned,… Nero … The men let come in his presence. Ibid., 94. And ek it [i.e., rain] may be so sojorned In sondri places up alofte, That into hail it torneth ofte.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 153. For-thi salle thow lenge here,… This seuenyghte in solace, to suggourne ȝour horses.
1424. Sc. Acts, Jas. I. (1814), II. 4/1. Þe kyng forbiddis þat ony cumpanyis … thig or soiorne hors … on kirkmen.
1631. Archdeaconry of Essex Minute-bk., fol. 199 b. Enterteyninge and soiourninge in his howse … a fellowe verie negligent in cominge to divine service.
1690. Wood, Life, 30 April. [They] are sojourned there by one Thomson for 10s. a week each.
† 4. intr. To travel, journey. Obs.–1
1608. Sir J. Harrington, in Nugæ Ant. (1804), I. 380–1. I did once relate to your Highnesse after what sorte his tacklinge was wherewithe he did sojourn from my house at the Bathe to Greenwiche Palace.
Hence Sojourning ppl. a.
1645. J. Bond, Occasus Occid., 19. Sarah … the Patriarchesse, who willingly followed her sojourning husband up and downe in strange Countries.
a. 1684. Leighton, Comm. 1 Peter, Wks. (1868), 50/1. It continues all the time of this sojourning life.
