Word Meanings - SOPHISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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. (more info) 1. A sophist. See Sophist. Hooker.

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  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• UNIVERSITY
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• FIRST
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• DURIO
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• THREE-PILE
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• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
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• THREE-DECKER
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• COURSED
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• THREE-SIDED
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• DURANTE
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• THREE-PORT
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• ORDURE
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