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To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
(RQ:Burney Camilla)
(RQ:Hazlitt Dramatic Literature)
(RQ:Braddon Cloven Foot)
(quote-book)
To make (something) more (l); to develop, to refine. (defdate)
To make (oneself or someone) more (l); to cosmopolitanize.
To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.). (defdate)
(RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)
(RQ:Hooker Laws)&93;, Primate and Metropolitane of All England|page=174|passage=For there are diuers motiues, dravving men to fauour mightily thoſe opinions vvherein their perſvvaſions are but vveakely ſetled: and if the paſſions of the minde be ſtrong, they eaſily ſophiſticate the vnderſtanding, they make it apt to beeleeue vpon very ſclender vvarrant and to imagine infallible truth vvhere ſcarce any probable ſhevv appeareth.
(RQ:Jonson Alchemist)
(RQ:Andrewes Ninety-six Sermons)
(RQ:Howell Epistolae)
(RQ:Lee Mithridates)
(RQ:Congreve Way of the World)
(RQ:Southey Thomas More) nor of books of casuistry, which sophisticate the understanding and defile the heart; (..)
(RQ:Arnold Literature and Dogma) sophisticates somewhat the genuine (w); but it is very doubtful whether the culture and mental energy of Plato did not give him a more adequate vision of the true Socrates than (w) had.
To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(quote-book) to Thomas Jefferson. Quincy, July 16, 1813 Jefferson’s letter to Dr. (w)|title=The Writings of Thomas Jefferson;(nb...)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Riker, Thorne & Co.; Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Maury|date=9 April 1803|year_published=1854|volume=VI|page=169|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSYWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169|oclc=9494329559|passage=His character and doctrines have received still greater injury from those who pretend to be his special disciples, and who have disfigured and sophisticated his actions and precepts from views of personal interest, so as to induce the unthinking part of mankind to throw off the whole system in disgust, and to pass sentence, as an impostor on the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that has ever been exhibited to man.
To apply an artificial technique to (something).
(RQ:Coryat Crudities)|page=263|lines=1–5|passage=They ſit in ſome ſun-ſhining place in a chamber or ſome other ſecret roome, vvhere hauing a looking-glaſſe before them they ſophiſticate and dye their haire vvith the foreſaid drugs, (..)
To practise (l). (defdate)
(RQ:Radcliffe Forest)
(quote-journal)|month=March|year=1876|volume=XXVII|page=574|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YJpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA574|issn=0010-7565|oclc=1564974|passage=Yet Butler|Joseph Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.
A person who is (l), or who has sophisticated tastes. (defdate)
(quote-av)'': Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing. / ''SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob SquarePants'': Yea verily!
(synonym of)
Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated ''(sense 1.1)'' person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
(RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works)
Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.