Sorbonist (sorbonist)

and a. [ Dull Sorbonist , fly contradiction! Fie! thou oppugn'st the definition. Marston, Scourge of Villanie, iv. 135. For he a rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist . S. Butler , Hudibras (ed. 1774), I. i. 158. II. a. Of or pertaining to the Sorbonne or its members. Rabelais had indeed again made for himself protectors whom no clerical or Sorbonist jealousy could touch. Encyc . Brit ., XX. 195.