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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of sophisticate English)
Usage examples of "sophisticating".
It was clean, solid, healthy, joyous, inexhaustible girl, all clovery oils and pungencies, long limber waist and torso sophisticating the rhythmic counterpoint of solid, heated, thirsty hips, creating somehow along with release the small awarenesses of new hunger soon to rebuild.
They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of schismatising followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating & perverting the simple doctrines he taught by engrafting on them the mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties, & obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to reject the whole in disgust, & to view Jesus himself as an impostor.
Among them we may occasionally see some man of deep conscientiousness, and subtile and refined understanding, who spends a life in sophisticating with an intellect which he cannot silence, and exhausts the resources of ingenuity in attempting to reconcile the promptings of his conscience and reason with orthodoxy, which yet he does not, perhaps, to the end succeed in doing.
It wasn't going to waste time sophisticating finger-joints or taking the kinks out of the lower bowel.
Hastily then I explained why I had sent Greene to him for sophisticating, especially in the matter of Anastasia's innocence, and echoed his own suggestion that the treatment-in-progress might be as therapeutic for Greene to witness as it no doubt was for Mrs.