Sorbonne

[sɔ:'bɔn]

Definition

n. the earliest and the most famous of all the colleges of the medieval university of Paris founded in 1253 by Robert of Sorbon in the diocese of Rheims. Exclusively devoted to theology till the close of the 15th century it controlled by its teaching and its dogmatic decisions the intellectual life of Europe.—adj. Sorbon′ical.—n. Sor′bonist a doctor of the Sorbonne.

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