Sophister

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sophister \Soph"ist*er\, n.
     1. A sophist. See {Sophist}. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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     2. (Eng. Univ.) A student who is advanced beyond the first
        year of his residence.


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     Note: The entire course at the university consists of three
           years and one term, during which the students have the
           titles of first-year men, or freshmen; second-year men
           or junior sophs or sophisters; third-year men, or
           senior sophs or sophisters; and, in the last term,
           questionists, with reference to the approaching
           examination. In the older American colleges, the junior
           and senior classes were originally called, and in some
           of them are still called, junior sophisters and senior
           sophisters.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sophister \Soph"ist*er\, v. t.
     To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.]
     --obham.
     [1913 Webster] Sophistic