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sophister

[ sof-uh-ster ]

noun

  1. a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
  2. Chiefly British. (especially formerly) a second or third year student at a university.
  3. Obsolete. an ancient Greek sophist.


sophister

/ ˈsɒfɪstə /

noun

  1. (esp formerly) a second-year undergraduate at certain British universities
  2. rare.
    another word for sophist
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sophister1

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French sophistre < Latin sophista. See sophist
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Example Sentences

Do not let any sophister teach thee that thy God is far aloft from thee as the stars are.

I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one of them was a crafty old sophister, and the other a mere novice.

I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice.

He entered Trinity College as a fellow-commoner, completed his junior sophister terms, and then migrated ad eundem to Oxford.

He ridicules his opponent's arguments as worthy of "a sophister in the parvyse schools."

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