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[Eng. sophistic at ( e ): -or.] One who sophisticates; one who adulterates or destroys the genuinene or purity of anything by foreign admixture. "I cordially commend that the sophisticators of wine may suffer punishment above any ordinary thief."Whitaker: Blood of the Grape (1654), p. 107. *soph-Ist-re , subst . [English sophist ; -re .] A female sophist. "You seem to be a soph i stre , you answer so smartly." -Bailey: Erasmus , p. 194.