sophistryn.

/ˈsɒfɪstri/

Forms: Middle English sophestrie, Middle English–1600s sophistrie (Middle English sophistri), Middle English–1500s sophystrye (1500s sophystrie), Middle English– sophistry; Middle English safistre, soffistre, sofystry.

Etymology: < Old French sophistrie (modern French sophisterie , = Spanish sofisteria , Italian sofisteria ), or < medieval Latin sophistria : see sophist n. and -ry suffix.

a. Specious but fallacious reasoning; employment of arguments which are intentionally deceptive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun]

sophistry1340

chop-logic1533

Jesuitism1613

chopping of logic1668

casuistry1712

sophism1768

special pleading1813

subtilism1825

Jesuitry1832

verbalism1847

logic-chopping1904

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 65 Ine huyche manyere þet me zuereþ, oþer openliche, oþer stilleliche be art, oþer be sophistrie.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 343 Confessioun & contricioun..Shal be coloured so queyntly and keuered vnder owre sophistrie.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 5767 Tel on, as yt lyth in thy thouht, Wer yt deceyt or sophystrye.

1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon Prol. sig. A.vi^v Can ye..perswade vs thynk ye with your sophistry?

1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. F.iii^v Stopping the mouthes of the vnlearned, with suttle..perswasions of..Sophistrie.

1634 W. Habington Castara ii. 70 Who will with silent piety confute Atheisticke Sophistry, and by the fruit Approve Religions tree?

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 123 This Maule did use to spoyl young Pilgrims with Sophistry .

1712 A. Pope On Silence in A. Pope et al. Misc. Poems 146 The Parson's Cant, the Lawyer's Sophistry, Lord's Quibble, Critick's Jest; all end in thee.

1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity 186 I do not profess myself to be master of any uncommon art of detecting sophistry.

1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 65 I feel too well the sophistry of his arguments.

1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 226 Nothing can exceed the tortuous sophistry of this admirable special pleading.

b. An instance of this; a sophism.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of

sophismc1350

fallacea1393

fallation1483

sophisticationa1492

fallax1530

fallacy1532

shift1545

elench1570

collusion1581

goose-trap1610

voidance1621

salvea1628

sophistry1673

wriggle1675

Jesuitism1749

special pleader1867

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. i. 9 By their villanies, sophistries, and arts of terrour.

1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxviii. 90 Perplexed by sophistries, their honest eloquence rises into action.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. viii. 195 No sophistries of French philosophy on your part.

1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxi. 311 To disentangle the soul from the fatal and subtle sophistries of sin.

2. The use or practice of specious reasoning as an art or dialectic exercise.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical disputation or dialectics > [noun] > sophistry

sophistrya1400

sophism1566

sophistic1862

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > use or practice of > as instruction

sophistrya1400

sophistic1862

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists > sophistic argument

sophistrya1400

sophistic1862

a1400–50 Alexander 4364 Ne foloȝe we na ficesyens ne philisophour scolis, As sophistri & slik thing to sott with þe pepill.

a1474 Inventory in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 362 Item, iij bokes of soffistre.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Diij We must haue sophystrye, Phylosophye and Logyck, as scyence necessarye.

1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 251 Though I..do want (as they say) logicke and sophistrie, and good words, to tell you why it is so.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 51 The Milanesi are said to excell in the study of the Civill Law..those of Pavia in Sophistrie.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 29 Aristotle..rendred his followers more skilful in hatching..wrangling sophistrie, than true solid Philosophie.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 267 The great use of disputation by the ancient sophists and the Schoolmen..tended to create a special art of sophistry.

†3. Cunning, trickery, craft. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun]

listOE

wiþercraftc1175

wilta1230

craftc1275

sleightc1275

engine?a1300

quaintisec1300

vaidiec1325

wilec1374

cautelc1375

sophistryc1385

quaintnessc1390

voisdie1390

havilon?a1400

foxeryc1400

subtletyc1400

undercraftc1400

practic?a1439

callidityc1450

policec1450

wilinessc1450

craftiness1484

gin1543

cautility1554

cunning1582

cautelousness1584

panurgy1586

policy1587

foxshipa1616

cunningnessa1625

subdolousness1635

dexterity1656

insidiousnessa1677

versuteness1685

pawkiness1687

sleight-hand1792

pawkery1820

vulpinism1851

downiness1865

foxiness1875

slimness1899

slypussness1908

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 125 The foule cherl [sc. the fowler] that for his coueytyse, Hadde hem betrayed with his sophistrye.

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 110 Others, with all their sophistry, made gins and traps for birds.

4. The type of learning characteristic of the ancient Sophists; the profession of a Sophist.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > profession of

sophistry1836

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists

sophistry1836

1836 J. W. Donaldson Theatre of Greeks (ed. 4) i. v. 88 Euripides was nursed in the lap of sophistry.

1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 434 Sophistry became a profitable trade.

Compounds

Objective (in sense 1a).

sophistry-weaving n.

ΚΠ

1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. ii. 25 His wearisome round of..dexterous sophistry-weaving.

Derivatives

† ˈsophistry v. Obsolete transitive to maintain or argue sophistically.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > argue sophistically [verb (transitive)]

sophistry1563

evade1630

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 268/2 Unto whome the Lorde Cobham thus aunswered, it is well sophistried of you forsoth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sophistry
释义	sophistryn. /ˈsɒfɪstri/ Forms: Middle English sophestrie, Middle English–1600s sophistrie (Middle English sophistri), Middle English–1500s sophystrye (1500s sophystrie), Middle English– sophistry; Middle English safistre, soffistre, sofystry. Etymology: < Old French sophistrie (modern French sophisterie , = Spanish sofisteria , Italian sofisteria ), or < medieval Latin sophistria : see sophist n. and -ry suffix. 1. a. Specious but fallacious reasoning; employment of arguments which are intentionally deceptive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] sophistry1340 chop-logic1533 Jesuitism1613 chopping of logic1668 casuistry1712 sophism1768 special pleading1813 subtilism1825 Jesuitry1832 verbalism1847 logic-chopping1904 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 65 Ine huyche manyere þet me zuereþ, oþer openliche, oþer stilleliche be art, oþer be sophistrie. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 343 Confessioun & contricioun..Shal be coloured so queyntly and keuered vnder owre sophistrie. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 5767 Tel on, as yt lyth in thy thouht, Wer yt deceyt or sophystrye. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon Prol. sig. A.vi^v Can ye..perswade vs thynk ye with your sophistry? 1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. F.iii^v Stopping the mouthes of the vnlearned, with suttle..perswasions of..Sophistrie. 1634 W. Habington Castara ii. 70 Who will with silent piety confute Atheisticke Sophistry, and by the fruit Approve Religions tree? 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 123 This Maule did use to spoyl young Pilgrims with Sophistry . View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope On Silence in A. Pope et al. Misc. Poems 146 The Parson's Cant, the Lawyer's Sophistry, Lord's Quibble, Critick's Jest; all end in thee. 1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity 186 I do not profess myself to be master of any uncommon art of detecting sophistry. 1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 65 I feel too well the sophistry of his arguments. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 226 Nothing can exceed the tortuous sophistry of this admirable special pleading. b. An instance of this; a sophism. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of sophismc1350 fallacea1393 fallation1483 sophisticationa1492 fallax1530 fallacy1532 shift1545 elench1570 collusion1581 goose-trap1610 voidance1621 salvea1628 sophistry1673 wriggle1675 Jesuitism1749 special pleader1867 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. i. 9 By their villanies, sophistries, and arts of terrour. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxviii. 90 Perplexed by sophistries, their honest eloquence rises into action. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. viii. 195 No sophistries of French philosophy on your part. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxi. 311 To disentangle the soul from the fatal and subtle sophistries of sin. 2. The use or practice of specious reasoning as an art or dialectic exercise. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical disputation or dialectics > [noun] > sophistry sophistrya1400 sophism1566 sophistic1862 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > use or practice of > as instruction sophistrya1400 sophistic1862 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists > sophistic argument sophistrya1400 sophistic1862 a1400–50 Alexander 4364 Ne foloȝe we na ficesyens ne philisophour scolis, As sophistri & slik thing to sott with þe pepill. a1474 Inventory in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 362 Item, iij bokes of soffistre. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Diij We must haue sophystrye, Phylosophye and Logyck, as scyence necessarye. 1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 251 Though I..do want (as they say) logicke and sophistrie, and good words, to tell you why it is so. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 51 The Milanesi are said to excell in the study of the Civill Law..those of Pavia in Sophistrie. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 29 Aristotle..rendred his followers more skilful in hatching..wrangling sophistrie, than true solid Philosophie. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 267 The great use of disputation by the ancient sophists and the Schoolmen..tended to create a special art of sophistry. †3. Cunning, trickery, craft. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] listOE wiþercraftc1175 wilta1230 craftc1275 sleightc1275 engine?a1300 quaintisec1300 vaidiec1325 wilec1374 cautelc1375 sophistryc1385 quaintnessc1390 voisdie1390 havilon?a1400 foxeryc1400 subtletyc1400 undercraftc1400 practic?a1439 callidityc1450 policec1450 wilinessc1450 craftiness1484 gin1543 cautility1554 cunning1582 cautelousness1584 panurgy1586 policy1587 foxshipa1616 cunningnessa1625 subdolousness1635 dexterity1656 insidiousnessa1677 versuteness1685 pawkiness1687 sleight-hand1792 pawkery1820 vulpinism1851 downiness1865 foxiness1875 slimness1899 slypussness1908 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 125 The foule cherl [sc. the fowler] that for his coueytyse, Hadde hem betrayed with his sophistrye. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 110 Others, with all their sophistry, made gins and traps for birds. 4. The type of learning characteristic of the ancient Sophists; the profession of a Sophist. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > profession of sophistry1836 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists sophistry1836 1836 J. W. Donaldson Theatre of Greeks (ed. 4) i. v. 88 Euripides was nursed in the lap of sophistry. 1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 434 Sophistry became a profitable trade. Compounds Objective (in sense 1a). sophistry-weaving n. ΚΠ 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. ii. 25 His wearisome round of..dexterous sophistry-weaving. Derivatives † ˈsophistry v. Obsolete transitive to maintain or argue sophistically. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > argue sophistically [verb (transitive)] sophistry1563 evade1630 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 268/2 Unto whome the Lorde Cobham thus aunswered, it is well sophistried of you forsoth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1340
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