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Sophisticate

So`phis´ti`cate
v. t.1.To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.
To sophisticate the understanding.
- Southey.
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.
- M. Arnold.
a.1.Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
So truth, while only one supplied the state,
Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate.
- Dryden.
Noun1.sophisticate - a worldly-wise person
Verb1.sophisticate - make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
2.sophisticate - practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
3.sophisticate - alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
Synonyms: doctor, doctor up
4.sophisticate - make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
blase, city slicker, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, debase, disenchanted, disillusioned, doctor, knowing, load, man of experience, man-about-town, mondaine, slicker, weight, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

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