Also 6 Sorbonest, 7–9 Sorbonnist. [ad. mod.L. Sorbonista or F. Sorboniste: see SORBONNE.] A doctor or student at the Sorbonne.
α. 1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 28. The Sorbonistes condempne Luthers bokes.
1579. Fulke, Conf. Sanders, 674. Claudius de Sanctis, that brauling Sorbonist, woulde proue … the saide liturgie to be his.
1592. Marlowe, Massacre Paris, I. ix. 416 (? 1600), B 3 b. Because the blockish thorbonest, Attribute as much vnto their workes As to the seruice of the eternall God.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 369. He disputed with the Sorbonists in Paris.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. I. 29. Those censures were made by the Sorbonists.
1751. Hist. Crit. Acc. of Hugh Peters (1818), 27, note. The same Sorbonists decreed all those … to be in a mortal Sin.
1820. Milner, Suppl. Mem. Eng. Cath., 34. The decision of certain Sorbonists, respecting the lawfulness of the oath.
1886. J. Gillow, Lit. Biog. Hist. Eng. Cath., II. 508. The Sorbonists still stuck to their opinion.
attrib. 1886. Encycl. Brit., XX. 195/2. Rabelais had indeed again made for himself protectors whom no clerical or Sorbonist jealousy could touch.
β. 1611. Cotgr., s.v. Ordinaire, Certaine disputations held among Sorbonnists before they commence Doctors.
1683. Apol. Prot. France, vi. 78. And upon the return of the Jesuites,… they communicated to the Sorbonnists the Popes Answer.
1757. Hume, Nat. Hist. Religion, 76. ‘How can you worship leeks and onions?’ we shall suppose a Sorbonnist to say to a priest of Sais.
1820. T. Mitchell, Aristoph. (1822), II. 22. The Sorbonnists of Paris … in like manner affected to unite peculiar slovenliness and dirtiness with peculiar learning.
b. transf. A person of great learning.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World Wond., 340. The grand Negro of all Necromancers (who is also the great Sorbonist of Sorcerers, and maister of Magicians).
