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Sophisticate   Listen
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Sophisticate  v. t.  (past & past part. sophisticated; pres. part. sophisticating)  To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. "To sophisticate the understanding." "Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine." "They purchase but sophisticated ware."
Synonyms: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.






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"Sophisticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... comes on the stage in post haste and in this juncture of time, that he may, if possible, overthrow the hopes of all good men, and endeavours what he can to divert those that at present sit at the helm, and by fair pretences and sophisticate arguments would, &c ... Which I taking notice of, and meeting with this forementioned pamphlet of MR. MILTON'S, and upon perusal of it finding it dangerously ensnaring, the fallacy of the arguments being so ...
— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson

... nor can be ever in the world, is to me the greatest miracle of all. If there had not been, at some time or other, true miracles, it had not been so easy to impose on the people by false. The alchemist would never go about to sophisticate metals to pass them off for true gold and silver, unless that such a thing was acknowledged as true gold and ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli



Words linked to "Sophisticate" :   load, cosmopolite, train, doctor, cultivate, debase, slicker, grownup, doctor up, refine, school, civilise, educate, complicate, adulterate, civilize, cosmopolitan, pervert, adult, sophistication, denote, convolute, twist around, elaborate, man of the world, rarify, stretch



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