Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
Sophy (in the senses of “a Persian monarch” and “a personage”). - noun obsolete
wisdom ,knowledge ,learning - noun Any one of the various
fields ofstudy whose names end in-sophy . - noun Obsolete spelling of
sophi . - noun obsolete A
wise man; asage orwite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Saw sophy in The Gathering, and we mutually recognized each other.
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Saw sophy in The Gathering, and we mutually recognized each other.
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Coffee houses near St Paul's Cathedral were the haunts of clergy men and intellectuals who gathered to discuss theology and philosophy.
C18th Pleasure Gardens; fashions, food, drink, dancing, music
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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.
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Coffee houses near St Paul's Cathedral were the haunts of clergy men and intellectuals who gathered to discuss theology and philosophy.
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“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!”
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“Confound the vulgar thief!” muttard my master, as he was laying on his sophy, after being so very ill;
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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.
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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.
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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
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