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Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist. Bale.

A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.

A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. Bacon. Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. Ex. vii. 11.

A female sorcerer.

Act or practice of using sorcery.

Of or pertaining to sorcery.

ancy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. Milton.

See Sward. [R.] Milton.

Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.

A sordine.

Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden.

Sordidness. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being sordid.

See Damper, and 5th Mute.

Reddish brown; sorrel. [R.] Sore falcon. (Zoöl.) See Sore, n., 1.

pl. of Soredium.

Sorediïferous.

Bearing soredia; sorediate.

A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.

Same as Sora.