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sophistic, a. and n.|səˈfɪstɪk|
Also 6–8 sophistick, 7 -icke.
[ad. L. sophistic-us, ad. Gr. σοϕιστικός, f. σοϕιστής sophist. Hence also Sp. sofístico, It. soff-, sofistico, F. sophistique.]
A. adj.
1. Of persons: Given to the use or exercise of sophistry.
1549Compl. Scot. xv. 137, I exort the..rather that thou accuse my tua sophistic brethir. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 79 The schools of the antient philosophers..came now to be dissolv'd, and their sophistick teachers became ecclesiastical instructers. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. 1808 V. 201 The sophistic tyrants of Paris are loud in their declamations against the departed regal tyrants. 1874K. H. Digby Temple Memory (1875) 329 As when sophistic sceptics would cry down Great Anaxagoras.
†b. Engaged in speculation. Obs.—1
1549Compl. Scot. xvii. 145 At that tyme thai lay al to gydthir in ane cauerne, as dois presently the sophistic egiptiens.
2. Of or pertaining to sophistry or sophists; of the nature of sophistry or specious reasoning.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. 390 The sandy grounds of their Sophistick brawling. 1612Webster White Devil ii. ii. 7 Some there are, Which by sophisticke tricks, aspire that name..of nigromancer. 1673Milton True Relig. 7 A mystery indeed in their Sophistic Subtilties, but in Scripture a plain Doctrin. a1734North Examen iii. vi. §23 (1740) 439 But he,..by his sophistic Terms, declares the latter only to bear the Bell. 1807A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 348 He who rendered his rare eloquence the sophistic engine to infatuate his country. 1871H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 119 [He] justifies himself to himself with sophistic satisfaction.
b. Pertaining to, characteristic of, the ancient sophists.
1835T. Mitchell Acharn. of Aristoph. 392 note, λεπτὰ, a sophistic word, expressive of whatever is most subtle, ingenious, and acute in mental operation. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece xi. 339 The outburst of the sophistic scepticism. 1885Pater Marius the Epicurean I. 219 The undisputed occupant of the sophistic throne.
B. n.
1. Sophistic argument or speculation as a subject of instruction. Also in pl. form.
1862Merivale Rom. Emp. lxvi. (1865) VII. 223 Of the three principal chairs,..that of Sophistics took the first rank. 1865Grote Plato II. xxii. 96 Sophistic is the shadow or counterfeit of law-giving. 1881Mahaffy Old Greek Educ. xi. 143 Lecturers in sophistic and rhetoric.
2. Sophistry, deceptiveness.
1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 222, I reject this as..reproducing the sophistic of ‘Testimonials’ in another form. |