Crossword clues for sophisticate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "make impure by admixture," from Medieval Latin sophisticatus, past participle of sophisticare (see sophistication). From c.1600 as "corrupt, delude by sophistry;" from 1796 as "deprive of simplicity." Related: Sophisticated; sophisticating. As a noun meaning "sophisticated person" from 1921.
Wiktionary
Adulterated; not pure; not genuine. n. A worldly-wise person v
1 To make less natural or innocent. 2 To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive. 3 To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive. 4 To make more complex or refined.
WordNet
n. a worldly-wise person [syn: man of the world]
v. make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute]
alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: doctor, doctor up]
make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
Usage examples of "sophisticate".
There are loopholes, and a technically sophisticated adolescent will be able to defeat them.
All adequate understanding of aphasia or agnosia would, he believed, require a new, more sophisticated science.
But Europe by the thirteenth century, say, boasted great cities, thriving agriculture and trade, sophisticated government and legal systems.
He had converted the innocent rural bawdry of the masque into a sophisticated vileness.
I would surmise the presence of a class-B jamming field of an unknown and extremely sophisticated design, probably controlled by a biaxial shield generator as Mr.
He was caged between surgeries, fed raw meat and vitamin injections, anesthetized and programmed in ways that are sophisticated even for today: biofeedback, subliminal conditioning.
That forms new and generally more sophisticated offspring programs that are then evaluated for mating on the basis of their fitness, et cetera, et cetera.
It always amazed Remo how Chiun managed to grasp sophisticated Western concepts when it suited his purpose, like coequal partner.
With her hair given a sophisticated wave and combed back neatly she was radiating raw sex appeal.
It is fortunate for her, and for De Coude as well, that it was you and not another man more sophisticated.
But the technique of its solution lies at the heart of the cryptanalysis of nearly all more sophisticated substitution ciphers.
The food was hot and plentiful, and although not culinarily sophisticated, very good.
The room itself, elegantly coved and dadoed, was a sophisticated mix of purples and contrasting shades, mainly ochres and whites, against which the King made a different kind of contrast, dressed today not in his Roman wear but local garments in a whole fruit basket of berry dyes.
It ran its own courts under the presidency of an ethnarch, and its sophisticated members rose to high positions within the country.
By expansion, for one thing, including a land purchase that gave the Feen its own tubetrain station, complete with some rather sophisticated security gates and a short siding track to accommodate its newly purchased cargo cars.