Sorbonical

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English

Etymology

From Sorbonne +‎ -ical.

Adjective

Sorbonical (comparative more Sorbonical, superlative most Sorbonical)

  1. Belonging or relating to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
    • 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 of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, volume 2, page 463:
      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 []
    • 1607, Richard Carew (translator), A World of Wonders (Apologia pro Herodoto) by Henri Estienne, Chapter 39, p. 341,
      This question (to say the truth) is more then Sorbonicall: for many of no greater moment haue bene debated in Councels.