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Of a slate color.

Schistose.

Of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist.

The quality or state of being schistose.

The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.

A selenographer.

Half or party historical. Sir G. C. Lewis.

See Shist, Schistose.

One skilled in siderography.

A card game played with the full pack ranking as at whist, each player declaring for which of seven different points he proposes to play.

A person in a state of somniapathy.

faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt. Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socra…

A sophist. See Sophist. [Obs.] Hooker.

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound. His argument . . . is altogether sophistical. Macaulay. -- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. -- So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. They purchase but sophisticated ware. Dryden.

not genuine. So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. Dryden.

The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. Boyle.

One who sophisticates.

The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge.

A sphenographer.