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n. a sophist

n. A sophist. See sophist.

n. A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.

v. To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.

n. A man of learning; a teacher; specifically, a professional teacher of philosophy; a sophist.

n. A sophist; a quibbler; a subtle and fallacious reasoner.

n. In English universities, a student advanced beyond the first year of his residence, now generally called a soph.

To maintain by a fallacious argument or sophistry.

"In the third year of his residence the student of the liberal arts was allowed to become a "sophister," and to take part in logical disputations."

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