Etymology

Norrisian

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Today it means: Describing a former professorship in divinity at the University of Cambridge, later merged into the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity. Full definition →

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The story

From Norris + -ian, after John Norris, who founded the professorship with a bequest in 1777.

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