sophistern.

/ˈsɒfɪstə/

Forms: Middle English sofistre, Middle English sofister, sof-, sovyster; Middle English sophistre, 1500s sophystre, sophistere, Scottish -istar, 1500s–1600s sophyster, Middle English– sophister.

Etymology: < Old French sophistre, < Latin sophista sophist n.

†1. = sophist n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher

mastereOE

schoolmistress1335

mistress1340

sophistera1387

sophist1542

schoolman1712

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists > adherent of

sophistera1387

sophist1542

dunce?1546

dunser?1550

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 175 Whanne fendes hadde i-hote hym þe victorie of the Pers, his sophister axede [etc.].

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 27 Þer was a yong [man] þat feste hym at þe scule with Pictagoras, for to be a sophister.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Defluo Al this came from the fountaines of the sophisters.

1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶ij^v The learned Plutarch..tels of a Sophister that made a long and tedious Oration in praise of Hercules.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xvi. ii. 56 Hippias Elêus that most quicke and eagre Sophister.

1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. xi. 319 There is a Story of the Sophister Hermocrates relating to this.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 93 At first all Artists, and even Philosophers themselves, were call'd Sophisters.

a. = sophist n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist

sophisterc1380

Duns man1528

chop-loge1542

dunser?1550

shifter1567

chop-logic1575

sophist1581

casuist1616

casualist1633

Jesuit1640

logicaster1683

chopper1699

special pleader1796

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 156 Alȝit a sofistre wolde graunte þat þei lyven wiþouten ende.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xviii. 311 A sophistre of sorcerie and pseudo-propheta.

c1425 St. Mary of Oignies i. ix, in Anglia VIII. 143/19 In maner of a sofister amonge sum trewe þat traytour enforced hym to medil false.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxvi. 45 Thei wolden..skorne me, and holde me for a sophistre.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 475/2 As though a sophyster woulde with a fonde argumente, proue..that two egges wer thre.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xx. 145 Thir freuole sophistaris that marthirs and sklandirs the text of aristotel deseruis punitione.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 39 The Deuill beyng a subtill Sophister beguiled and blynded our graundmother Eue.

1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iv. sig. E2^v Let no nimble tonged Sophisters gather a false conclusion from these true premisses.

1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1662) ii. x. 284 The ordinary sort of Christians, that are not able to deal with a Sophister.

1703 D. Phillips Vindiciæ Veritatis iv. 242 The Truth..may easily be defended against the most powerful Batteries of the acutest Sophister.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §8 Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 48 Not to mention Mandeville, the buffoon and sophister of the alehouse.

1892 A. Birrell Res Judicatæ v. 144 The wordy sophister with his oven full of half baked thoughts.

b. In the phrase to play the sophister.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)]

to chop logic1528

to play the sophister?1550

Jesuit1601

casuist1643

special-plead1702

special-plead1848

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 122 For now is he dryven to hys uttermost shyfte..to play Jacke Sophystre altogether.

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C3 But nephew, do not play the sophister.

1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 40 On this poynt eight dayes were spent by his playing the Sophester.

a1659 R. Brownrig 40 Serm. (1661) 232 He will play the Sophister, and endeavour..to beguil us with subtilties.

1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 139 Ma. But may I play the Sophister with you now? Pa. The Sophistress.

a. At Cambridge: a student in his second or third year. (Cf. soph n. 1) Now Historical.Also in use at Oxford in the latter part of the 17th cent.; cf. soph n. 1 (quots. 1684 and 1691).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 2nd or 3rd year student

sophister1574

sophister1650

sophumer1653

soph1661

sophomore1688

sophomore1726

soph1778

freshman-sophomore1851

sophomoric1946

1574 M. Stokys in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. p. xi A Sophister provided by the Proctour shall knele before the Responsall sett.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. vi. f. 79^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The first degree of all, is that of the generall Sophisters, from whence..they ascende hygher to the estate of Batchelers of arte.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 260 A number which the meanest Sophister in Cambridge can resolue.

1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. vii. 38 They have practised little, but to wrangle down a Sophister, or to delude a Proctor, in the Vniversity.

1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 196 They are made like our sophisters' gown, without a cape.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 199/1 The several degrees of persons in the University Colledges... Fresh Men, Sophy Moores, Junior Soph, or Sophester. And lastly Senior Soph.

1730 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 74 The Schools appointed for Batchelors and Sophisters.

b. With distinguishing epithet junior or senior.

ΚΠ

1685 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 132 This fellow had the impudence before last Act to answer Generalls without a Bachelor or Senior Sophister.

1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration 202 A Senior Sophister would be laugh'd at for such Logick.

c. Similarly at Harvard and Dartmouth, U.S.A.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 2nd or 3rd year student

sophister1574

sophister1650

sophumer1653

soph1661

sophomore1688

sophomore1726

soph1778

freshman-sophomore1851

sophomoric1946

1650 in Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 518 In case any of the sophisters..fail in the premises required at their hands.

1708 S. Sewall Diary 27 Sept. (1973) I. 604 He was a Senior Sophister.

1766 in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) 246 That the Senior Sophisters shall attend the Tutor A on Mondays.

1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 296 The junior sophisters, beside the languages, enter on natural and moral philosophy and composition.

4. At Trinity College, Dublin: a student in his third or fourth year. Also transferred and attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 3rd or final year student

questionist1549

upperclassman1586

sophister1841

third season man1841

tertian1857

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley cv, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 366/1 The columns of attack will be formed by the senior sophisters of the old guard.

1845 W. B. S. Taylor Hist. Univ. Dublin iv. 147 The science taught..in the third, or junior sophister year, [is] Astronomy and Physics; in the fourth, or senior sophister year, Ethics.

1845 W. B. S. Taylor Hist. Univ. Dublin iv. 147 Junior sophisters are examined in the science taught from the beginning of the second or senior freshman year.

Compounds

Appositive (in sense 2a).

sophister-doctor n.

ΚΠ

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xiv. 68 Presently they appointed him a great Sophister-Doctor..who taught him his A B C.

Derivatives

† ˈsophistered adj. Obsolete sophisticated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > adulterated

sophisticatec1400

adulterine1542

adulterous1547

corrupted1563

sophistered1567

corrupt1581

carded1596

adultered1603

sophisticated1607

adulterated1610

brackish1611

adulterate1634

sophistical1658

unsincere1664

doctored1784

alloyed1806

filled1887

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 9 It hath bene seene that in stead of a Smaragde some haue had sophistred and counterfayted Glasse.

sophister-like adv.

ΚΠ

1608 Sec. Pt. Def. Minist. Reas. Refusal Sub. 170 [He] changeth the state of the question sophisterlike.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. vii. 24) Putting paralogisms.., tricks and fallacies (sophister-like) upon your own souls.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	sophister
释义	sophistern. /ˈsɒfɪstə/ Forms: Middle English sofistre, Middle English sofister, sof-, sovyster; Middle English sophistre, 1500s sophystre, sophistere, Scottish -istar, 1500s–1600s sophyster, Middle English– sophister. Etymology: < Old French sophistre, < Latin sophista sophist n. †1. = sophist n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher mastereOE schoolmistress1335 mistress1340 sophistera1387 sophist1542 schoolman1712 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists > adherent of sophistera1387 sophist1542 dunce?1546 dunser?1550 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 175 Whanne fendes hadde i-hote hym þe victorie of the Pers, his sophister axede [etc.]. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 27 Þer was a yong [man] þat feste hym at þe scule with Pictagoras, for to be a sophister. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Defluo Al this came from the fountaines of the sophisters. 1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶ij^v The learned Plutarch..tels of a Sophister that made a long and tedious Oration in praise of Hercules. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xvi. ii. 56 Hippias Elêus that most quicke and eagre Sophister. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. xi. 319 There is a Story of the Sophister Hermocrates relating to this. 1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 93 At first all Artists, and even Philosophers themselves, were call'd Sophisters. 2. a. = sophist n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist sophisterc1380 Duns man1528 chop-loge1542 dunser?1550 shifter1567 chop-logic1575 sophist1581 casuist1616 casualist1633 Jesuit1640 logicaster1683 chopper1699 special pleader1796 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 156 Alȝit a sofistre wolde graunte þat þei lyven wiþouten ende. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xviii. 311 A sophistre of sorcerie and pseudo-propheta. c1425 St. Mary of Oignies i. ix, in Anglia VIII. 143/19 In maner of a sofister amonge sum trewe þat traytour enforced hym to medil false. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxvi. 45 Thei wolden..skorne me, and holde me for a sophistre. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 475/2 As though a sophyster woulde with a fonde argumente, proue..that two egges wer thre. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xx. 145 Thir freuole sophistaris that marthirs and sklandirs the text of aristotel deseruis punitione. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 39 The Deuill beyng a subtill Sophister beguiled and blynded our graundmother Eue. 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iv. sig. E2^v Let no nimble tonged Sophisters gather a false conclusion from these true premisses. 1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1662) ii. x. 284 The ordinary sort of Christians, that are not able to deal with a Sophister. 1703 D. Phillips Vindiciæ Veritatis iv. 242 The Truth..may easily be defended against the most powerful Batteries of the acutest Sophister. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §8 Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 48 Not to mention Mandeville, the buffoon and sophister of the alehouse. 1892 A. Birrell Res Judicatæ v. 144 The wordy sophister with his oven full of half baked thoughts. b. In the phrase to play the sophister. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)] to chop logic1528 to play the sophister?1550 Jesuit1601 casuist1643 special-plead1702 special-plead1848 ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 122 For now is he dryven to hys uttermost shyfte..to play Jacke Sophystre altogether. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C3 But nephew, do not play the sophister. 1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 40 On this poynt eight dayes were spent by his playing the Sophester. a1659 R. Brownrig 40 Serm. (1661) 232 He will play the Sophister, and endeavour..to beguil us with subtilties. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 139 Ma. But may I play the Sophister with you now? Pa. The Sophistress. 3. a. At Cambridge: a student in his second or third year. (Cf. soph n. 1) Now Historical.Also in use at Oxford in the latter part of the 17th cent.; cf. soph n. 1 (quots. 1684 and 1691). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 2nd or 3rd year student sophister1574 sophister1650 sophumer1653 soph1661 sophomore1688 sophomore1726 soph1778 freshman-sophomore1851 sophomoric1946 1574 M. Stokys in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. p. xi A Sophister provided by the Proctour shall knele before the Responsall sett. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. vi. f. 79^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The first degree of all, is that of the generall Sophisters, from whence..they ascende hygher to the estate of Batchelers of arte. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 260 A number which the meanest Sophister in Cambridge can resolue. 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. vii. 38 They have practised little, but to wrangle down a Sophister, or to delude a Proctor, in the Vniversity. 1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 196 They are made like our sophisters' gown, without a cape. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 199/1 The several degrees of persons in the University Colledges... Fresh Men, Sophy Moores, Junior Soph, or Sophester. And lastly Senior Soph. 1730 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 74 The Schools appointed for Batchelors and Sophisters. b. With distinguishing epithet junior or senior. ΚΠ 1685 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 132 This fellow had the impudence before last Act to answer Generalls without a Bachelor or Senior Sophister. 1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration 202 A Senior Sophister would be laugh'd at for such Logick. c. Similarly at Harvard and Dartmouth, U.S.A. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 2nd or 3rd year student sophister1574 sophister1650 sophumer1653 soph1661 sophomore1688 sophomore1726 soph1778 freshman-sophomore1851 sophomoric1946 1650 in Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 518 In case any of the sophisters..fail in the premises required at their hands. 1708 S. Sewall Diary 27 Sept. (1973) I. 604 He was a Senior Sophister. 1766 in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) 246 That the Senior Sophisters shall attend the Tutor A on Mondays. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 296 The junior sophisters, beside the languages, enter on natural and moral philosophy and composition. 4. At Trinity College, Dublin: a student in his third or fourth year. Also transferred and attributive. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 3rd or final year student questionist1549 upperclassman1586 sophister1841 third season man1841 tertian1857 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley cv, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 366/1 The columns of attack will be formed by the senior sophisters of the old guard. 1845 W. B. S. Taylor Hist. Univ. Dublin iv. 147 The science taught..in the third, or junior sophister year, [is] Astronomy and Physics; in the fourth, or senior sophister year, Ethics. 1845 W. B. S. Taylor Hist. Univ. Dublin iv. 147 Junior sophisters are examined in the science taught from the beginning of the second or senior freshman year. Compounds Appositive (in sense 2a). sophister-doctor n. ΚΠ 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xiv. 68 Presently they appointed him a great Sophister-Doctor..who taught him his A B C. Derivatives † ˈsophistered adj. Obsolete sophisticated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > adulterated sophisticatec1400 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 corrupted1563 sophistered1567 corrupt1581 carded1596 adultered1603 sophisticated1607 adulterated1610 brackish1611 adulterate1634 sophistical1658 unsincere1664 doctored1784 alloyed1806 filled1887 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 9 It hath bene seene that in stead of a Smaragde some haue had sophistred and counterfayted Glasse. sophister-like adv. ΚΠ 1608 Sec. Pt. Def. Minist. Reas. Refusal Sub. 170 [He] changeth the state of the question sophisterlike. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. vii. 24) Putting paralogisms.., tricks and fallacies (sophister-like) upon your own souls. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1380
随便看	duskishly duskishness dusklight duskly duskness dusks dusktime dusky dusky ant dusky crane's-bill dusky crane'sbill dusky duck dusky grebe dusky grouse dusky lark dusky petrel dusky race dusky tribe dusky-faced dusky-raftered dusky-tinted duskyfaced duskyish duskyraftered duskytinted