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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Describing a former professorship in divinity at the University of Cambridge, later merged into the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity. not-comparable

Etymology

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

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