sophisticaten.
/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/ Originally U.S.
One who is sophisticated or who has sophisticated tastes. Cf. sophisticated adj. 2b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > [noun] > person
sophisticate1923
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [noun] > one possessed of
man of the world1778
nobody's fool1857
sophisticate1923
1923 G. Atherton Black Oxen i. 1 All the Sophisticates (as Clavering had named them, abandoning ‘Intellectuals’ and ‘Intelligentsia’ to the Parlor Socialists) were present.
1930 H. Walpole Rogue Herries i. 163 Then Louis of France, making rude gestures, fingers at nose, that he may irritate, polished sophisticate that he is, the barbarian Stanislaus.
1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles xix. 208 Murder and that brittle insincere sophisticate were poles apart.
1942 Scrutiny X. 349 I think it is more than an accident that Copland, who started..as a sophisticate of the Big City, should in his mature work have come to express the loneliness..that lies back of all big cities.
1959 Encounter Sept. 52/1 For sophisticates, there is a touch of abnormal psychology.
1971 Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 25 (advt.) The simple sophisticate. The Goldring-Lenco GL 69/2 transcription unit.. with much more than ‘the basics’ for enthusiasts who don't require extreme sophistication of design.
1976 UCT Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) Oct. 38 To the sophisticate it is a send-up of the genre in the vein of Chaucer's tale of Sir Thopas.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
sophisticateadj.
/səˈfɪstɪkət/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > adulterated
sophisticatec1400
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
corrupted1563
sophistered1567
corrupt1581
carded1596
adultered1603
sophisticated1607
adulterated1610
brackish1611
adulterate1634
sophistical1658
unsincere1664
doctored1784
alloyed1806
filled1887
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) v. 51 Ȝif it be thykke or reed or blak, it is sophisticate, that is to seyne, contrefeted and made lyke it, for disceyt.
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 60 Joyne trewe kindes not sophisticate.
1544 T. Phaer Of Pestilence (1553) M vij Bole armonyake,..not to brittle, nor to hye coloured, for suche is commonly sophisticate.
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things i. 19 You shal know good & pure Azure, from sofisticate & naughty Azure [etc.].
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. i. 11 The countrey..findeth..good and sufficient stuffe, neither fustie nor sophisticate.
1671 E. Maynwaring Praxis Medicorum 66 Yet this cheap sophisticate Medicine..will cost you six times so much.
2. = sophisticated adj. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > [adjective]
sophisticate1601
sophisticated1603
unnatural1735
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. iv. sig. C2 O heauen, that any thing..should suffer these rackt extremities, for the vttring of his Sophisticate good parts. View more context for this quotation
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. v. sig. H O this Sophisticate friendship, that dissolues With euery heate of Fancie.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iii. 127 Thou hast now then the Form and Causes of that adulterate sophisticate Felicity.
1812 G. Crabbe Tales i. 12 'Tis the savage state Is only good, and ours sophisticate!
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. ii. 74 The feeling was true, though the expression was sophisticate and a fashion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xi. sig. ci By the diligent studye of very philosophie (nat that whiche is sophisticate, and consisteth in sophismes).
1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 169 Such is his sophisticate sophistry, and frothy wit.
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber ii. i. ii. iii. 45 They by another Reason thus argue and strengthen their own Sophisticate Opinion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
sophisticatev.
/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/ 1. figurative.1635 T. Lambarde in W. Lambarde & T. Lambarde Archeion (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. A5v That sweet Odour hee hath left, cannot by their false ingredients be so sophisticated, but may by the judicious bee easily smelt out.1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 100 Our Senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their Objects; which are all sophisticated there.
a. transitive. To mix (commodities) with some foreign or inferior substance; to render impure in this way; to adulterate. Now somewhat rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > adulterate
adulterc1384
feigna1398
sophisticatec1400
infect?1440
counterfeit1495
adulterate?1526
dash1548
falsify1562
elay1573
abuse1574
base1581
corrupt1581
debase1591
adulterize1593
compass1594
sophisticate1604
allay1634
huckster1642
hucksterize1646
cauponize1652
alloy1661
balderdash1674
impurify1693
doctor1726
vitiate1728
sand1851
dope1898
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xviii. 84 It fallez oft tyme þat marchands sophisticatez peper.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 110 Sophisticatid craftely is many a confecture.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth x. sig. F.ii They the which do put any other thynge to ale..doth sofysticat [printed sofystical] theyr ale.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C2v He lets me haue good Tobacco, and he do's not Sophisticate it, with Sack-lees, or Oyle. View more context for this quotation
1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 199 Muskadel is sophisticated with the Laggs of Sack, or Malmsey thus.
1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 33 It is now..common to sophisticate well known medicines.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 410 A method of ascertaining whether ether be sophisticated with alcohol.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 119 If sophisticated with castor oil, the mixture soon becomes nearly colourless like white honey.
b. To deal with in some artificial way.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > refine [verb (transitive)] > render sophisticated
sophisticate1611
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. V5 Hauing a looking-glasse before them they sophisticate and dye their haire with the foresaid drugs.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xlvii. 328 His hair, never sophisticated by a comb,..resembled dark sea-weed.
c. To render artificial, to deprive of simplicity, in respect of manners or ideas; to convert into something artificial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > perform or enact affectedly [verb (transitive)] > make affected > deprive of simplicity
sophisticate1796
1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. vii. 270 [They were] less sedulously sought by those whom the manners and maxims of the common world had sophisticated.
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 2 They were not at all sophisticated. The mind of their country was great in them and it prevailed.
1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. vii. 201 They spoke out their thoughts with a rude freedom which..proved that they had not been sophisticated into prigs.
1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot iii Christened plain Sarah or Mary, to be sophisticated later into Celestine or Mariette.
d. To render sophisticated (in senses 2b, 2c; in quot. 1947 with weakened sense). Also reflexive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > deprive of simplicity [verb (transitive)]
sophisticate1947
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > make sophisticated [verb (transitive)]
sophisticate1947
1947 C. L. Morgan Judge's Story iv. 17 ‘But if you have reached the age of twenty-seven without ever having heard of Combined Metallurgical Industries, I am justified.’.. ‘Now sophisticate me.’
1956 M. Stewart Wildfire at Midnight iii. 33 Three years of my great friend Nicholas..would sophisticate a Vestal Virgin.
1978 J. I. M. Stewart Full Term xxii. 250 I..took to buying..all the paperbacks I could lay my hands on concerning espionage... It was a field that had sophisticated itself since the distant time when Patullo Minor, the Secret Service Boy, had enthralled his school-fellows with his hazardous escapades.
2. To corrupt or spoil by admixture of some baser principle or quality; to render less genuine or honest.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > spoil by mixing
stain1575
sophisticate1604
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > adulterate
adulterc1384
feigna1398
sophisticatec1400
infect?1440
counterfeit1495
adulterate?1526
dash1548
falsify1562
elay1573
abuse1574
base1581
corrupt1581
debase1591
adulterize1593
compass1594
sophisticate1604
allay1634
huckster1642
hucksterize1646
cauponize1652
alloy1661
balderdash1674
impurify1693
doctor1726
vitiate1728
sand1851
dope1898
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iii. iv. 99 The facultie of eloquence..is sophisticated by many, who couer stincking matters with fragrant flowers.
a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) 381 It is the manner of the world..to sophisticate ever the best things with hypocrisy.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 15 Lest it should tinge and sophisticate the Light that it lets in, by a natural Jaundice.
1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. x. 324 Is not the inference strong, that that party feels..the fallacy of its creed, and must sophisticate it?
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vii. 233 Those who sophisticate a very simple thing, religion.
3. To corrupt, pervert, mislead (a person, the understanding, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [verb (transitive)]
forbraidc888
besmiteeOE
awemOE
filec1175
soila1250
envenomc1300
beshrewc1325
shrew1338
corrumpa1340
corrupt1382
subvertc1384
tache1390
poison1395
infect?c1400
intoxicatec1450
deprave1482
corrup1483
rust1493
turkess?1521
vitiate1534
prevary?1541
depravate1548
fester?1548
turkish1560
wry1563
taint1573
disalter1579
prevaricate1595
sophisticate1597
invitiate1598
fashion1600
tack1601
debauch1603
deturpate1623
disaltern1635
ulcer1642
deboise1654
Neronize1673
demoralize1794
bedevil1800
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > deceive, delude [verb (transitive)]
bedidderc1000
bipechec1000
swikeOE
fodea1375
flatter1377
to make believea1393
illude1447
miscarrya1450
to fode forth (also occasionally forward, off, on, out)1479
delude1493
sophisticate1597
sile1608
prestigiate1647
will-o'-the-wisp1660
bilk1672
foxa1716
fickle1736
moonshine1824
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > self-deception > deceive oneself [verb (reflexive)]
deceive1382
sophisticate1597
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvii. 233 It alwaies behoueth men to take good heede least affection..sophisticate the true and sincere iudgement.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 75 Why have you not been Naught? Have you not been Sophisticated?
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 30 Books of casuistry, which sophisticate the understanding and defile the heart.
1847 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. (1853) viii. 396 What is it that sophisticates our hopeful youth?
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 540 Those who..sophisticated St. Paul's feeble converts.
4. To falsify by mis-statement or by unauthorized alteration.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > false assertion > assert falsely [verb (transitive)] > alter fraudulently
falsec1380
falsify1502
sophisticate1605
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)]
false1303
forgec1330
counterfeitc1386
deceit1484
falsify1502
forge1535
sophisticate1605
doctor1750
fabricate1779
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > create version of text [verb (transitive)] > alter or adapt (text)
sophisticate1605
adapt1712
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 393 And thou..shalt testifie..What now thy shame-lesse lips sophisticate.
1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 194 And with all sophisticates and corrupts both the words and meaning of this sacred Text.
1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 4 Not adulterating, not sophisticating the Word.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 421 The term Trachon seems to have been still farther sophisticated by the Greeks.
1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 298 As to demarcation,..they take the liberty of sophisticating Burke, in making him write demarkation.
5. intransitive. To practise sophistication.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)]
haft1519
shuffle1565
dodge1575
palter1580
shift1580
hedge1611
boggle1615
subterfuge1622
prevaricatea1625
to shuffle up and down1633
evade1660
sophisticate1664
janka1689
whiffle1737
tongue-twist1836
caffle1851
pussyfoot1902
sidestep1904
spruce1916
to fudge and mudge1980
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > practise forgery [verb (intransitive)]
forgea1616
sophisticate1664
1664 J. Owen Vindic. Animadversions Fiat Lux xv In your following discourse you double and sophisticate.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. x. 103 The benevolence of her heart taught her, in this instance, to sophisticate.
1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 337 Sophisticate and mystify as we will.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiii. 320 We next see him paltering and sophisticating with the truth.
Derivatives
soˈphisticating n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > adulteration
cauponation1531
sophistication1541
adulterating1581
bastarding1583
bastardizing1598
sophisticating1611
adultery1616
adulteration1626
adulterism1639
bastardization1650
compassing1669
contagion1695
doctoring1805
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > that mixes or blends > that adulterates
sophistical1558
adultering1598
sophisticating1611
adulterating1693
adulterant1737
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sofistication, a sophistication, or sophisticating.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 126 There are so many sofisticating Tobacco-mungers in England.
1651 J. French Art Distillation To Rdr. sig. *4v Their sophisticating of Chymical oils with spirit of Turpentine.
1821 C. Lamb Old & New Schoolmaster in Elia 1st Ser. The sophisticating medium of moral uses.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 378 Leaving the starchy matter, as well as most other sophisticating substances.
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