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Sophister
(gcide) | Sophister \Soph"ist*er\, n.
1. A sophist. See Sophist. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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2. (Eng. Univ.) A student who is advanced beyond the first
year of his residence.
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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.
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Sophister
(gcide) | Sophister \Soph"ist*er\, v. t.
To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.]
--obham.
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senior sophister
(gcide) | Senior \Sen"ior\, n.
1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in
life.
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2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was
anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
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3. An aged person; an older. --Dryden.
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Each village senior paused to scan,
And speak the lovely caravan. --Emerson.
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4. One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course
at an American college; -- originally called {senior
sophister}; also, one in the last year of the course at a
professional schools or at a seminary.
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