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sophisticate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sophisticate  \So*phis"ti*cate\,  Sophisticated 
  \So*phis"ti*ca`ted\,  a. 
  Adulterated;  not  pure;  not  genuine. 
 
  So  truth,  while  only  one  supplied  the  state,  Grew  scare 
  and  dear,  and  yet  sophisticate.  --Dryden. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sophisticate  \So*phis"ti*cate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Sophisticated};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Sophisticating}.]  [LL. 
  sophisticatus  p.  p.  of  sophisticare  to  sophisticate.] 
  To  render  worthless  by  admixture;  to  adulterate;  to  damage; 
  to  pervert;  as  to  sophisticate  wine.  --Howell. 
 
  To  sophisticate  the  understanding.  --Southey. 
 
  Yet  Butler  professes  to  stick  to  plain  facts,  not  to 
  sophisticate,  not  to  refine.  --M.  Arnold. 
 
  They  purchase  but  sophisticated  ware.  --Dryden. 
 
  Syn:  To  adulterate;  debase;  corrupt;  vitiate. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sophisticate 
  n  :  a  worldly-wise  person  [syn:  {man  of  the  world}] 
  v  1:  make  less  natural  or  innocent 
  2:  change  the  meaning  of  [syn:  {twist},  {twist  around},  {pervert}, 
  {convolute}] 
  3:  alter  with  the  intention  to  deceive;  Sophisticate  rose  water 
  with  geraniol"  [syn:  {doctor},  {doctor  up},  {adulterate}] 
  4:  make  more  complex  or  refined;  "a  sophisticated  design" 




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