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  • noun Alternative spelling of Sophy (in the senses of “a Persian monarch” and “a personage”).
  • noun obsolete wisdom, knowledge, learning
  • noun obsolete A wise man; a sage or wite.
  • noun Obsolete spelling of sophi.
  • noun Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy.

Etymologies

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See Sophy.

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From the Latin sophia, from the Ancient Greek σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophiā, "high knowledge”: “learning”, “wisdom"); compare Sophia.

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A back-formation from sophies, originally plurale tantum, but later attested in singular use (see the 1678 quotation), itself an irregular Anglicisation of the Latin sophī, whence the English sophi; compare sophy.

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An irregular Anglicisation of sophi; compare sophy ³.

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From the common termination of the class of words denoted (e.g., philosophy, theosophy, etc.); compare the earlier ology and ism, and the later logy and osophy.

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Examples

  • Saw sophy in The Gathering, and we mutually recognized each other.

    In Which Even More Books are Bought julieandrews 2010

  • Saw sophy in The Gathering, and we mutually recognized each other.

    Wiscon 34 - In Which I Arrive and Various Things Happen julieandrews 2010

  • Co­ffee houses near St Paul's Cathed­ral were the haunts of clergy men and intellectuals who gathered to discuss theology and philo­sophy.

    C18th Pleasure Gardens; fashions, food, drink, dancing, music Hels 2009

  • The above works, all of which are continuations of á¹¢adrian philosophy, further elaborate the fine points of transcendentalist theo-sophy, which was firmly based on the principality of existence over essence, gradation, and the oneness that appears as multiplicity.

    Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Aminrazavi, Mehdi 2009

  • Co­ffee houses near St Paul's Cathed­ral were the haunts of clergy men and intellectuals who gathered to discuss theology and philo­sophy.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009

  • “Algernon Deuceace,” says my lord, getting up from the sophy, and looking at him with sich a jolly malignity, as I never see, “I declare, before heaven, that I will not give you a penny!”

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • “Confound the vulgar thief!” muttard my master, as he was laying on his sophy, after being so very ill;

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • As for Mrs. Shum, she was such a fine lady, that she did nothink but lay on the drawing-room sophy, read novels, drink, scold, scream, and go into hystarrix.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • New thumps, new shreex; and the old horridan went on beatin the poor girl till she was quite exosted, and fell down on the sophy, puffin like a poppus.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • I never shall forget how b-e-a-utifully she looked as she sat in state on the front parlor sophy, right under a great portrait of her first husband; and on either side of her sat

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

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