Definition of "sophomorical" [sophomorical]

• Sophomoric (adjective)

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• "* In Webster's Dictionary, Mr. Calhoun's authority is given for the word sophomorical in this sense."
• "In those days we had a youth of talent in the family, -- a sort of sophomorical boil, that the soap and sugar of indiscriminate adulation had drawn to a head of conceit."
• "Southern character has always been eminently receptive of the puerile and nonsensical, while the vast proportion of semi-savage, semi-sophomorical minds in Dixie, half-educated and altogether idle and debauched, has made their land a fertile field for quack Bickleys, brutal and arrogant Pikes, and other petty tools of greater and more powerful knaves."