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Sorbonical

Sorbonical adjective: belonging or relating to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.

Adjective

Sorbonical (comparative more Sorbonical, superlative most Sorbonical)

  1. Belonging or relating to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
    • Iohn Langeie a Scot borne, following his studie in Paris became a Sorbonicall doctor, who liuing in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred thrée score and ten, did write a booke of the life, doctrine, and death of Martin Luther and Iohn Caluin […]1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “A generall catalog of the writers of Scotland, with the times in which they liued, as well of the yeare of Christ, as of the reigne of Scotish kings”, in Chronicles...
    • This question (to say the truth) is more then Sorbonicall: for many of no greater moment haue bene debated in Councels.1607, Richard Carew (translator), A World of Wonders (Apologia pro Herodoto) by Henri Estienne, Chapter 39, p. 341

Forms of Sorbonical

comparativemore Sorbonical
superlativemost Sorbonical

Origin of Sorbonical

From Sorbonne + -ical.

Questions about Sorbonical

What does Sorbonical mean?
Sorbonical means belonging or relating to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
What part of speech is Sorbonical?
Sorbonical is an adjective.

Words near Sorbonical in the dictionary

  1. sorbitol
  2. sorbitols
  3. Sorbo
  4. Sorbon
  5. Sorbonic
  6. Sorbonical
  7. Sorbonist
  8. Sorbonists
  9. Sorbonne
  10. Sorbonnist
  11. Sorbonnists

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