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  1. n. wisdom, knowledge, learning
  2. n. alternative spelling of Sophy. (in the senses of “a Persian monarch” and “a personage”).
  3. n. A wise man; a sage or wite.
  4. n. obsolete spelling of sophi.
  5. n. Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in term.

Examples

  • “Saw sophy in The Gathering, and we mutually recognized each other.”

    In Which Even More Books are Bought

  • “Co­ffee houses near St Paul's Cathed­ral were the haunts of clergy men and intellectuals who gathered to discuss theology and philo­sophy.”

    Archive 2009-09-01

  • “The above works, all of which are continuations of á¹¢adrian philosophy, further elaborate the fine points of transcendentalist theo-sophy, which was firmly based on the principality of existence over essence, gradation, and the oneness that appears as multiplicity.”

    Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy

  • “As for Mrs. Shum, she was such a fine lady, that she did nothink but lay on the drawing-room sophy, read novels, drink, scold, scream, and go into hystarrix.”

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

  • “New thumps, new shreex; and the old horridan went on beatin the poor girl till she was quite exosted, and fell down on the sophy, puffin like a poppus.”

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

  • ““Algernon Deuceace,” says my lord, getting up from the sophy, and looking at him with sich a jolly malignity, as I never see, “I declare, before heaven, that I will not give you a penny!””

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

  • ““Confound the vulgar thief!” muttard my master, as he was laying on his sophy, after being so very ill;”

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

  • “I never shall forget how b-e-a-utifully she looked as she sat in state on the front parlor sophy, right under a great portrait of her first husband; and on either side of her sat”

    An Old-Fashioned Girl

  • “Algernon Deuceace," says my lord, getting up from the sophy, and looking at him with sich a jolly malignity, as I never see, "I declare, before heaven, that I will not give you a penny!”

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

  • “Her question pleased him greatly and he gave her a marked copy, annotated with the chapters she should skim and those she should skip altogether, in order to provide her with an appropriate grounding in political philo- sophy, sociology and economics.”

    The Guardian World News

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‘sophy’ has been looked up 262 times, and has a Scrabble score of 13.