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sophister


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sophister  \Soph"ist*er\,  v.  t. 
  To  maintain  by  sophistry,  or  by  a  fallacious  argument.  [Obs.] 
  --obham.