-sophy Definition

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Knowledge or thought.
Theosophy.
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Ante 1557: Nicolas Grimald, “The death of Zoroas, an Egiptian AÅ¿tronomer, in firÅ¿t fight, that Alexander had with the PerÅ¿ians" in Songes and Sonnettes, page 121
Turn thee to mee, in caſeManhod ther bee ſo much left in thy hert:Coom fight with mee: that on my helmet wearApolloes laurel, both for learnings laude,And eke for Martiall prayſe: that, in my ſhield,The ſeuenfold ſophie of Minerue contein:A match, more meet, ſir king, than any here.
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1588: John Harvey, A Discoursive Probleme Concerning Prophesies, page 10
Who knoweth not the difference betweene...semblance, and assurance; docosophy, and sophy?
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Alternative spelling of Sophy (in the senses of “a Persian monarch" and “a personage").

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1596: Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bibles Historie Drawne into English Poesy, volume 2, page 127
These Sophies finde with the Babe Iesus, onely Marie.
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1610: Giles Fletcher the Younger, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after Death, first canto: “Christs Victorie in Heaven", stanza 82 (1838 republication)
The Angels caroll'd loud their song of pecea,The cursed oracles were strucken dumb,To see their Shepherd, the poor shepherds press,To see their King, the kingly sophies come,And them to guide unto his Master's home,A star comes dancing up the orient,That springs for joy over the starry tent.Where gold to make their prince a crown they all present.
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pronoun

A female given name, a variant of Sophia and Sophie.

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sophies

Origin of -sophy

  • A back-formation from sophies, originally plurale tantum, but later attested in singular use (see the 1678 quotation), itself an irregular Anglicisation of the Latin sophÄ«, whence the English sophi; compare sophy.

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  • From the common termination of the class of words denoted (e.g., philosophy, theosophy, etc.); compare the earlier ology and ism, and the later logy and osophy.

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  • From the Latin sophia, from the Ancient Greek σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophiā, “high knowledge": “learning", “wisdom"); compare Sophia.

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  • An irregular Anglicisation of sophi; compare sophy ³.

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  • See Sophy.

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-sophy Sentence Examples

  • He married again in 1892 Edith Sophy, daughter of Archibald Balfour, who, with a son and daughter, survived him.

  • The philosophical writings, which mark a distinct epoch in the development of modern thought, can here be considered in two Phlloa only of the many aspects in which they present themselves sophy.

  • Sophy Lynn opened the first dispensary in Notting Hill in 1988 in an old Chemist's store.

  • But the relations of Philo- pure thought, losing their inwardness, appear as relations of of space and time; the abstract development of thought sophy nature.

  • It may be that we first of all of'h primitively or spontaneously affirm cause, substance, sophy.

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