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sophic

sophic adjective: teaching, conveying, or related to wisdom.

Adjective

sophic (comparative more sophic, superlative most sophic)

  1. (obsolete) Teaching, conveying, or related to wisdom.
    • He'll drop the sword, or shut the sophic page
      And pensive pay the tributary tear.a. 1773, James Cunningham, Stanzas on the Death of George II
    • The sophic activities so highly developed among the tribes of the arid pueblo region.1897-1898, John Wesley Powell, 19th Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Forms of sophic

comparativemore sophic
superlativemost sophic
alternative formsophical
alternative formsophick

Origin of sophic

From Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “skilled, wise”) + -ic.

Words formed from sophic

Questions about sophic

What does sophic mean?
Sophic means teaching, conveying, or related to wisdom.
What part of speech is sophic?
Sophic is an adjective.

Words near sophic in the dictionary

  1. Sophia
  2. Sophian
  3. Sophiana
  4. Sophianism
  5. Sophias
  6. sophic
  7. sophic mercury
  8. sophical
  9. sophically
  10. sophick
  11. sophick mercury

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