Sorbonne (sorb on)

[F. Sorbonne, so named from Robert de Sorbon, its founder. founder.) A celebrated house founded in the University of Paris about 1250 by Robert de Sorbon, chaplain and confe or of Louis IX. The college of the Sorbonne became one of the four constituent parts, and the pre sity. dominant one, of the faculty of theology in the univerfairs and on the public mind, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was suppre ed during the revolution and deprived of its endowments. At the reconstruction of the university under Napoleon I. the building erected for it by Richelieu, and still called the Sor It exercised a high influence in ecclesiastical af bonne, was given to the theological faculty in connection with the faculties of science and belles-lettres. sorb-tree (sôrb'trē), n. Same as sorb1, 1. Sorbus (sôr'bus), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), sorcerer. Deuinores of demorlaykes that dremes cowthe rede, Sorsers & exorsismus & fele such clerkes. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1579. sorcerer (sôr'sér-er), n. [ sorcer + -er (superfluously added, as in fruiterer , poulterer , uphol sterer, etc.): see sorcer.] Originally, one who casts lots; one who divines or interprets by the casting of lots; hence, one who uses magic arts in divination or for other ends; a wizard; an enchanter; a conjurer. The King commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the King his dreams. Dan. ii. 2. Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind. Shak., C. of E., i. 2. 99.