sophistical (sofistikal)

[ Whom ye could not move by sophistic all arguing, them you thinke to confute by scandalous misnaming. Milton, Church-Government, i. 6. 21. Sophisticated; adulterated; not pure. There be some that commit Fornication in Chymistry, by heterogeneous and sophistical Citrin a tions. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 41. Sophistical disputation. See disputation, 2. sophistically (sō-fis'ti-kal-i), adv. [ Wyclif, Ecclus. xxxvii. 20. The gravest (offense)... is to argue sophistically , to suppre facts or arguments, to mi tate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion. J. S. Mill , Liberty, ii. 5773 He lets me have good tobacco, and he does not Sophisticate it with sack-lees or oil. B. Jonson, Alchemist, i. 1. Tradesmen who put water in their wool, and moisten their cloth that it may stretch; tavern-keepers who 80phisticate and mingle wines. I. D'Israeli, Curios. of Lit., I. 339. 4. To deprive of simplicity; subject to the methods or influence of art. He is rattling over the streets of London, and pursuing all the sophisticated joys which succeed to supply the place where nature is relinquished. V. Knox, E ays, vii. 5. To alter without authority and without notice, whether to deceive the reader or hearer, or to make a fancied improvement or correction; alter, as a text or the spelling of a word, in order to support a preconceived opinion of what it was or should be. How many... turn articles of piety to particles of policy, and sophisticate old singlene into new singularity! Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 178. As to demarcation, following Dr. Webster, they take the liberty of sophisticating Burke, in making him write deF. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 298. mark at i on. IMG:content-1554.png:[blocks in formation] J. S. Mill , Liberty, ii.