10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOPHOMORICAL»
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A Common-school Dictionary of the English Language, ...
SOLECISM. 278. SOPHOMORICAL. furnish with soles. — a. Single ; alone ;
solitary. S6i\j-Qigm,rt. Impropriety in language ; any absurdity. S61'e-Qis'tie, a.
Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism. Sole'ly, adv. Singly ; only. Sdl'emn (sol'em)
, a.
Noah Webster, William Greenleaf Webster, William Adolphus Wheeler, 1868
LETTER. I. Arenilitic. Butte,. Occident. November. 4,. 1872. Most. Sophomorical.
Sir:-. Your Græco-Latin epistolet or cabalistical abracabra, lies 1 before me,
deciphered and eclaircised to the best of my linguistic, 2 pasigraphical, and
exegetical ...
The article is sufficiently ostentatious and 'ambitious ; ii is ushered in with quite a
historical dissertation on the subject of catechetical instruction, abounds in
sophomorical scraps of Latin, (the author being a professor of the dead
languages,) ...
Marshall College (Mercersburg, Pa.). Alumni Association, 1852
It was then and there that we discovered the manuscript--and such a manuscript
—unlike “ anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath or in the waters
under the eart ,” and yet still decidedly sophomorical, and perfectly characteristic
of ...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis
Am I not a little less sophomorical than I used to be," he once asked his good
friend, President Stearns, to which the President courteously replied, that he had
never seemed sophomorical to him. Called frequently to offer prayer and
sometimes ...
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The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
The term " Sophomorical " is used to describe speeches which are full of emotion
which the speaker does not feel, full of words in four or five syllables that mean
nothing, and, in respect to imagery and illustrations, blazing with the cheap ...
Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple, 2001
And as the prevailing style always reflects the spirit of the age and the manners of
the nation, our authors, particularly our orators, show a prevailing tendency to a
sophomorical style of writing and speaking. That serene repose which is so ...
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The Reformed Church Review ...
The article is sufiiciently ostentatious and ambitious; it is ushered in with quite a
historical dissertation on the subject of catechetical instruction, abounds in
sophomorical scraps of Latin, (the author being a professor of the dead
languages,) ...
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A Truth Seeker Around the World: From Hong Kong to New York
They were, perhaps, aware that in American colleges there were four classes, the
second of which was the sophomorical class. They had now reached the
sophomorical stage ; there were more squires to the square acre than ever.
De Robigne Mortimer Bennett, 1882
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The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
To the inculcations of this address, we yield our hearty assent; but we must
declare of its style, that it is labored and sophomorical, to the last degree. Nearly
half a dozen times in a page, the writer is compelled to take refuge in a quotation.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, 1839
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Patterson Timba and his crew comprising Dunmore Kundishora was indeed a bunch of boys enjoying their new found toy with a rather sophomorical eagerness ... «Zimbabwe Independent, Feb 14»
