(n) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject, Example: understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication
(n) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment, Syn.worldliness, mundanity, mundaneness, Ant.naivete
{ }, a. [ L. sophisticus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. sophistique. ] Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound. [ 1913 Webster ]
His argument . . . is altogether sophistical. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
-- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. -- So*phis"tic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sophisticated p. pr. & vb. n. Sophisticating. ] [ LL. sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate. ] To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]
To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
They purchase but sophisticated ware. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
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