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sophic, a.|ˈsɒfɪk|
[ad. Gr. σοϕικός, f. σοϕία wisdom, σοϕός wise.]
†1. Obtained by some secret process. Obs.
1709True Light of Alchemy (heading), The Method and Materials..composing the Sophick Mercury and Transmuting Elixir.
2. Conveying, or full of, wisdom; learned.
a1773J. Cunningham On Death Geo. II, xxiv. Poems (1810) 461 He'll drop the sword, or shut the sophic page And pensive pay the tributary tear.
3. Pertaining to knowledge or speculation.
1898J. W. Powell 19th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. p. xlv, The sophic activities so highly developed among the tribes of the arid pueblo region.
So ˈsophical a.; ˈsophically adv.
1601Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. iii. 66 It is most certaine, that that which..is in those [regions] aboue, is seene also in this [world] of farre woorse condition, and as it were of a bastard and sophicall nature. 1739Harris 53rd Ch. Isaiah 256 (T.), All those books which are called sophical, such as the Wisdom of Sirach, etc. 1888(title), Thesaurus incantatus. The enchanted treasure; or, the Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita, in which is sophically and mystagorically declared the first matter of the stone. |