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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)