sophistIcate

t. [Low Lat. sophistic at us, pa. par. of sophistico to corrupt, to adulterate; Fr. sophistiquer; Sp. so fist i car; Ital. so fistic are.] *1. To corrupt, to prevent, to wrest from the truth. "If the pa ions of the mind be strong, they easily so phisticate the understanding."-Hooker: Eccles. Polity. 2. To adulterate; to make spurious by admixture, "It is a crime of a high nature to mingle or sophist i cate any wine here." -Howell: Letters, bk. i., let. 38.