Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sophistical"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sophistic \So*phis"tic\, Sophistical \So*phis"tic*al\, a. [L.
sophisticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sophistique.]
Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry;
fallaciously subtile; not sound.
His argument . . . is altogether sophistical.
--Macaulay.
-- {So*phis"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {So*phis"tic*al*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sophistical
adj : plausible but misleading [syn: {sophistic}]
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