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Sophisticate   /səfˈɪstəkˌeɪt/  /səfˈɪstəkət/   Listen
Sophisticate

verb
(past & past part. sophisticated; pres. part. sophisticating)
1.
Make less natural or innocent.
2.
Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.  Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around.
3.
Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.  Synonyms: doctor, doctor up.
4.
Make more complex or refined.





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"Sophisticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... brought about is always substantially the same. Egotism, vanity, disappointed ambition, sectional jealousies, a real or supposed interest or expediency induce them to wish that a wrong course were the right one. They try to convince themselves that it is so, and all such efforts to sophisticate the conscience, if persisted in, are punished by entire success. The spectacle does not inspire me with hate; it fills me with wonder and profound melancholy. Do these men think that by altering their opinion of right they can alter the nature of things, or make wrong ...
— The Spirit Proper to the Times. - A Sermon preached in King's Chapel, Boston, Sunday, May 12, 1861. • James Walker
... and emptie, euen, extant, rabbated, hollow, or whatsoeuer other figure and passion of quantitie. So also the Alchimist counterfeits gold, siluer, and all other mettals, the Lapidarie pearles and pretious stones by glasse and other substances falsified, and sophisticate by arte. These men also be praised for their craft, and their credit is nothing empayred, to say that their conclusions and effects are very artificiall. Finally in another respect arte is as it were an encountrer and contrary to nature, producing ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham


Words linked to "Sophisticate" :   refine, sophistication, grownup, train, refer, denote, dilute, adult, civilise, elaborate, educate, adulterate, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, debase, load, slicker, cultivate, rarify, civilize, school, complicate, stretch


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