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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

sorboniste

A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon,

a. d.

1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.

Noun.

A doctor of the Sorbonne in the university of Paris. Sorbonne is the place of meeting, and hence is used for the whole faculty of theology.

Sorbonist ‎(plural Sorbonists)

A student or master at the Sorbonne.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
  But of our Priests and Doctors how many have bin corrupted by studying the comments of Jesuits and Sorbonists, and how fast they could transfuse that corruption into the people, our experience is both late and sad.
- 1849, John Owen, translating John Calvin, Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans:
  Now attend here, and see what kind of renovation is required from us [in Rom. 12:1-2 "be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind"]: It is not that of the flesh only, or of the inferior part of the soul, as the Sorbonists [transl. sorbonici] explain this word; but of the mind, which is the most excellent part of us, and to which philosophers ascribe the supremacy […].