\Soph"ist*er\, n.
1. A sophist. See {Sophist}. [Obs.] --Hooker.
2. (Eng. Univ.) A student who is advanced beyond the first
   year of his residence.
Note: The entire course at the university consists of three
      years and one term, during which the students have the
      titles of first-year men, or freshmen; second-year men
      or junior sophs or sophisters; third-year men, or
      senior sophs or sophisters; and, in the last term,
      questionists, with reference to the approaching
      examination. In the older American colleges, the junior
      and senior classes were originally called, and in some
      of them are still called, junior sophisters and senior
      sophisters.

\Soph"ist*er\, v. t.
To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.]
--obham.