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11 words match “SOPHISTICATE”

SOPHISTICATE v.
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.
SOPHISTICATE; SOPHISTICATED a.
e; not genuine. So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. Dryden.
DESOPHISTICATE v.
To clear from sophism or error. [R.] Hare.
UNSOPHISTICATE; UNSOPHISTICATED a.
Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine. -- Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted*ness, n.
INNOCENT n.
An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. B. Jonson. In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. Sir W. Scott. Innocents' day (Eccl.), Childermas day.
LAMB n.
A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized. Lamb of God, The Lamb (Script.), the Jesus Christ, in allusion to the paschal lamb. The twelve apostles of the Lamb. Rev. xxi. 14. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John i.…
NAIVE a.
ted simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naïve manners; a naïve person; naïve and unsophisticated remarks.
NIAS n.
A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person. [Obs.]
PLAIN a.
Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. "Plain yet pious Christians." Hammond. "The plain people." A. Lincoln.
SOPHISTICATOR n.
One who sophisticates.
VERDANT a.
Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth. [Colloq.]