Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Sovereign, adj. 1) princely, royal: “thou art a sea, a s. king,” Lucr. 652. “flatter the mountain tops with s. eye,” Sonn. 33, 2. “nature, s. mistress over wrack,” 126, 5. “with her s. grace to come and sport,” Tp. IV, 72. “s. power,” All's II, 3, 60. “liver, brain and heart, these s. thrones,” Tw. I, 1, 38. “my s. mistress,” Wint. I, 2, 280. “our s. lord the king,” III, 2, 17. “the remembrance of his most s. name,” V, 1, 26. “holding of the pope your s. greatness,” John V, 1, 4. V, 2, 82. R2 II, 3, 157. H5 V, 2, 386 “(my s. queen).” H6B III, 1, 161. H6B III, 1, 161 Tim. I, 1, 68. Mcb. I, 5, 71. V, 2, 30. Hml. II, 2, 27. IV, 3, 65. Ant. I, 3, 60. IV, 9, 12. V, 2, 81. “my s. liege,” R2 I, 1, 129. I, 3, 154. H4A I, 3, 10. H6C IV, 1, 86. R3 II, 1, 52. R3 II, 1, 52 IV, 3, 23. “my s. lord,” H4B IV, 4, 113. H5 IV, 3, 68. “my s. king,” R3 II, 1, 46. H8 I, 1, 202. “s. sir,” Wint. V, 3, 2.
2) supreme, paramount, excellent: “such a gentle s. grace,” Err. III, 2, 165. “a man of s. parts,” LLL II, 44. “yond same s. cruelty,” Tw. II, 4, 83. “thou shalt have charge and s. trust herein,” H4A III, 2, 161. “thy parts s. and pious else,” H8 II, 4, 140. “that noble and most s. reason,” Hml. III, 1, 165. “a s. shame so elbows him,” Lr. IV, 3, 44. “opinion, a s. mistress of effects,” Oth. I, 3, 225. “let me lament with tears as s. as the blood of hearts,” Ant. V, 1, 41. With to, == paramount to, superior to: “let her be a principality, s. to all the creatures on the earth,” Gent. II, 4, 153.
3) supremely medicinal and efficacious: “calls it balm, earth's s. salve,” Ven. 28. “'gainst venomed sores the only s. plaster,” Ven. 28 “against strange maladies a s. cure,” Sonn. 153, 8. of whose (patience's) “soft grace I have her s. aid,” Tp. V, 143. “thus I search it with a s. kiss,” Gent. I, 2, 116. “the --'st thing on earth was parmaceti for an inward bruise,” H4A I, 3, 57. “the most s. prescription in Galen is but empiricutic,” Cor. II, 1, 127.