SOPHISTER DEFINITIONS - 3 definitions found
Websters 1828 Dictionary 
Sophister SOPH'ISTER, n. [supra.] 1. A disputant fallaciously
subtil; an artful but insidious logician; as an atheistical sophister. Not
all the subtil objection of sophisters and rabbies against the gospel,
so much prejudiced the reception of it, as the reproach of those crimes
with which they aspersed the assemblies of Christians. 2. A professor
of philosophy; a sophist. SOPH'ISTER, v.t. To maintain by a
fallacious argument. [Not in use.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
Sophister \Soph"ist*er\, v. t.
To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.]
--obham.
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