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Quotation dates: 1646
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(Sophistics,) -iks, n. pl. [F. sophistique n. (c1265 in Larousse) the art of the sophists, f. as Sophistic adj. Cf. 19th c. Eng. sophistics (1862) sophistic argument or speculation as a subject of instruction, sophistic (1868) sophistry, deceptiveness.] The Sophists of Ancient Greece, or their philosophical doctrines, as a subject of academic study. — c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 23.
The eldest of them interrogating Porphyre and … the yongest the Topickis, Sophistiks [etc.]
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