Definitions
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- adjective Describing a former
professorship indivinity at the University of Cambridge, later merged into the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity.
Etymologies
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Norris + -ian, after John Norris, who founded the professorship with a bequest in 1777.
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Examples
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Thus, in considering the nice problem of whether _Clement Drake_ (as typical a Norrisian as ever buttoned spats) would or would not escape the entanglements of _Mrs.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917 Various
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Those at _Cambridge_ are the Hul'sean, the Margaret, the Norrisian, and the Regius.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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_Cyclopædia Bibliographica_ is exemplified by the solution conveyed under the title "Crellius," p. 813, of the following difficulty expressed by Dr. Hey, the Norrisian professor (_Lectures_, vol.iii. p. 40.):
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