sophisticallyadv.
/səˈfɪstɪkəli/ In a sophistical manner; fallaciously; with deceptive subtlety.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adverb]
sophisticallya1382
fallaciously1612
Jesuitically1624
casuistly1650
casuistically1678
verbalistically1934
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adverb]
fakenlyOE
swikellya1023
ficklya1300
treacherouslya1340
guilinglya1382
sophisticallya1382
deceivably1387
guilefully1388
treacherlyc1394
deceivingly14..
guilouslyc1425
deceiteously1481
deceitfully1488
swikefullya1500
patchingly1570
faithlessly1581
abusively1595
dodgingly1599
fallaciously1612
deludingly1641
jugglingly1647
trickfullyc1790
hocus-pocusly1791
deceptiously1797
hocus-pocus1815
trickishly1824
deceptively1825
trickingly1833
dodgily1868
trickily1895
snakishly1935
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxvii. 23 Who sofistically speketh, is hateful.
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy vi. ix, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 163 The Mater ys alterate..substancyally, And not..sophystycally.
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxx Me semeth that those men that holde yt opynyon speke sophistically.
1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Cii That whiche by our wordes he can not gather, he sophisticallie inferreth vpon them.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iv. §66. 228 You abuse D. Potter.., by taking sophistically without limitation, that which is delivered with limitation.
1697 G. Keith 2nd Narr. Proc. Turners-Hall 5 He Defends himself most Sophistically.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 92 By these theorists the right of the people is almost always sophistically confounded with their power. View more context for this quotation
1857 E. B. Pusey Real Presence iii. 332 Calvin was far too acute, not to have been conscious, that he was arguing sophistically in both these instances.
1892 Times 7 Dec. 9/5 Those who praise the codes of France..often talk loosely and sophistically and unjustly.
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