sophister

/sof-uh-ster/US // ˈsɒf ə stər //UK // (ˈsɒfɪstə) //

诡辩家,诡辩者,诡计多端,诡计多端的人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- : Chiefly British. a second or third year student at a university.
- : Obsolete. an ancient Greek sophist.

Do not let any sophister teach thee that thy God is far aloft from thee as the stars are.
I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one of them was a crafty old sophister, and the other a mere novice.
I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice.
He entered Trinity College as a fellow-commoner, completed his junior sophister terms, and then migrated ad eundem to Oxford.
He ridicules his opponent's arguments as worthy of "a sophister in the parvyse schools."