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  1. sophisternoun

    a sophist

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sophisternoun

    Etymology: sophiste, French; sophista, Latin.

    A subtle traitor needs no sophister. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

    If a heathen philosopher bring arguments from reason, which none of our atheistical sophisters can confute, for the immortality of the soul, I hope they will so weigh the consequences, as neither to talk, nor live, as if there was no such thing. John Denham.

    Not all the subtle objections 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. John Rogers, Sermons.

    Alcidimus the sophister hath many arguments to prove, that voluntary and extemporal far excelleth premeditated speech. Richard Hooker.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sophisternoun

    a sophist. See Sophist

  2. Sophisternoun

    a student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence

  3. Sophisterverb

    to maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument

Anagrams for sophister »

  1. prothesis

  2. storeship

  3. posterish

  4. tephrosis

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sophister in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sophister in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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    the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
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