Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sophisticate"
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) 1.7 (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}]
4: make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
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