sophies

Noun (1)

sophy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) wisdom, knowledge, learning
   • It had ben) beter to haue kepte the same sophiecirca 1440: John Capgrave, The Life of St Katharine of Alexandria, verses 1,020–1,021 (published in 1893 by the Early English Text Society)

Noun (2)

sophy (plural sophies)

1. (obsolete) A wise man; a sage.
   • Yet notwithstanding some men in sundrie nations have mounted above the common rate, and indevored to cherish and advaunce the said Insights, and drawen some small sparkes of truth and wisedome out of them, as out of some little fire raked up under a great heape of ashes; the which they have...1587: Philippe de Mornay (author), Sir Philip Sidney (translator), and Arthur Golding (translator), A Woorke concerning the trewneſſe of the Christian Religion, preface, page viii (2007 compilation...

Noun (3)

sophy (plural sophies)

1. Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy.
   • The various sophy’s — cosmosophy, kerdosophy.ante 1843: Robert Southey, Common-place Book, volume 4, page 578 (1851 publication)

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