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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

sorboniste

A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon,

a. d.

1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.

Noun.

A doctor of the Sorbonne in the university of Paris. Sorbonne is the place of meeting, and hence is used for the whole faculty of theology.