Norrisian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

Norrisian (not comparable)

  1. Describing a former professorship in divinity at the University of Cambridge, later merged into the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity.
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