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▪ I. ‖ Sophia1|ˈsɒfɪə|
[L. sophia, a. Gr. σοϕία, f. σοϕός wise. Cf. sophy2.]
1. Wisdom, knowledge; spec. the Divine Wisdom. (Freq. personified.)
1649J. Ellistone Behmen's Ep. Pref. (1886) 5 This knowledge,..this garland, and crown of virgin Sophia. Ibid. 117 The fair and noble Sophia..which now at present standeth at the doore of your soule. [1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xl. IV. 91 The principal church, which was dedicated by the founder of Constantinople to saint Sophia, or the eternal wisdom.] 1840Milman Hist. Christ. II. 124 The great mother Sophia, would at length be admitted into the Pleroma or intellectual sphere. 1865tr. Hugo's Notre Dame ii. vii. 95 Hermetics, that sophia of all sophias.
2. Used attrib. to designate the type of Jewish literature represented by the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, etc. Hence ˈSophian a.1
1904Expositor Aug. 117 The influence of the Sophia-literature in S. Luke's Gospel is distinctly marked. Ibid., Undoubtedly a Sophian word from the Apocrypha.
▪ II. † Sophia2
obs. variant of Sophy1.
1711Fingall MSS. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 118 The grand Signior, or the Sophia of Persia, or the Czar of Russia. |