单词 | sophistical |
释义 | sophisticaladj. 1. = sophistic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adjective] fallacious?1473 sophistical1483 Jesuitish1602 sophistic1605 Jesuitical1613 Jesuitic1640 casuistical1648 specious1651 casuistic1660 casual1672 fine-drawn1681 scholastic1700 scholasticated1772 verbalistic1879 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 390/1 Logyke is deuyded..in demonstratyf, in probable, and in sophystycal. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccviv Whereunto a Sophystycall answere was made by the Kyng. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cxviv Wherfore they sought firste of all to bring them vndre by sophistycall sorceryes. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §60 They enforce the condition of God, and in a more sophisticall way doe seeme to challenge Heaven. View more context for this quotation 1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. v. 318 That this perfect Being doth Exist, is false and sophistical. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxi. 285 The sophistical distinction you attempt to draw between the person injured, and the person injuring. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. ii. 125 At first sight, this sophistical and delusive statement appears sufficiently conclusive. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 271 We..take into view all cases of defective and sophistical argumentation. 2. = sophistic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adjective] > given to using sophistical1535 sophisticc1550 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prol. All the gloses of oure sophisticall doctours. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxii. 259 Aristophanes..regarded the sophistical circles with abhorrence. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xviii. 468 He is fluent and sophistical,—a sure token of feeble wisdom and lack of sound argument. 1884 Daily News 24 July 4/6 The question..is one which..the most sophistical cannot obscure. a. Employed for the purpose of adulteration or deception. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceptive, misleading swikelc1000 fellc1300 deceivable1303 falselya1350 blind1393 deceivant1393 fallacec1400 sinister1411 deceivousa1425 deceitful1483 fallacious1509 deceiving?a1513 falsesome1533 sophistical1558 misconceited1595 deceptive1611 abusable1660 self-deceptive1810 flambuginous1813 false1842 funny1903 mamaguy1973 braidie- the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > that mixes or blends > that adulterates sophistical1558 adultering1598 sophisticating1611 adulterating1693 adulterant1737 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes (1580) i. vi. 110 b If the woorke bee of Copper, made white by any Sophisticall substaunce. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xli. 63 Ther be som that commit fornication in Chymistry, by Heterogeneous and Sophisticall citrinations. 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 272 Not setting out her beauty with sophistical paint. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > adulterated sophisticatec1400 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 corrupted1563 sophistered1567 corrupt1581 carded1596 adultered1603 sophisticated1607 adulterated1610 brackish1611 adulterate1634 sophistical1658 unsincere1664 doctored1784 alloyed1806 filled1887 1658 Godwin's Romanæ Hist. Anthol. (ed. 13) iii. ii. xvii. 180 He that had sold any corrupt or sophistical [other eds. sophisticated] wares. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > quality of fallacy1566 fallaciousness1644 sophisticalness1661 fallacity1773 1661 in Phœnix (1721) I. 68 Having so plainly demonstrated the Sophisticalness of Origen's Arguments. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sophisticalness, Captiousness, Deceitfulness; sophistical Quality. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1483 |
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