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Definition of Sophisters

Sophister
Sophister Soph"ist*er, n. 1. A sophist. See Sophist. [Obs.] --Hooker. 2. (Eng. Univ.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence. 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.
Sophister
Sophister Soph"ist*er, v. t. To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.] --obham.

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- article on "sophister", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "sophister" You can also: Search for Sophister in Wikipedia...
- continual restoration, in taking out the old Planks, and putting in new, the sophisters of Athens were wont to dispute) were, after all the Planks were changed...
- prior to her execution, he laments "the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is...
- Richard Rufus (Latin: Ricardus Rufus, lit. "Richard the Red"; d. c. AD 1260) was a Cornish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. Richard Rufus...
- second-years, Senior Freshmen; third-years, Junior Sophisters; and fourth-years, Senior Sophisters.[citation needed] Trinity's undergraduate admissions...
- freshmen", "junior sophister" or "senior sophister", according to the year they have reached in the typical four year degree course. Sophister is another term...
- Cambridge, his tutors included: John Chekyng, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, sophister, chosen 1519, reader of divinity, 1534. Henry Lockwood, Master of Christ's...
- students can also choose to take a language course in the university. Sophisters (third and fourth year students) choose 60 ECTs (European Credit Transfers)...
- in France (1790) he wrote that the "age of chivalry is dead, that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is...
- indicate that he was from the south of England. Barker taught logic to "sophisters" (second-year undergraduates) using his own text, the Scutum inexpugnabile...