Ope vs Sope - What's the difference?

ope | sope |

As verbs the difference between ope and sope

is that ope is (archaic) to open while sope is .

is .

(en adjective)

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:

*:Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].

* 1819 , (John Keats), Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:

We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —

I will to bed! — To-morrow —

* Herbert

On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope .

(op)

(archaic) To open.

* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :

The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.