sophister
sophister is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(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.
- 2.To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.] obham.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abecedarian
- academician
- academist
- admirable
- alphabetarian
- alumnus
- amateur
- and
- antiquarian
- antiquary
- apostle
- apprentice
- archaeologist
- articled
- auditor
- beginner
- bibliomaniac
- bibliophile
- bigwig
- bluestocking
- bookworm
- catechumen
- chela
- class
- clerk
- college
- condisciple
- connoisseur
- debutant
- disciple
- doctor
- doctrinaire
- don
- education
- eleve
- feet
- fellow
- fellow-commoner
- follower
- form
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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