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sophisticator
so·phis·ti·cate S0566200 (sə-fĭs′tĭ-kāt′)v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr.1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly: Travel tends to sophisticate a person.2. To make more complex or refined: sophisticated the theory to take criticism into account.3. Archaic a. To mislead or corrupt (a person).b. To make impure; adulterate.v.intr. Archaic To use sophistry.n. (-kĭt) A sophisticated person. [Middle English sophisticaten, to adulterate, from Medieval Latin sophisticāre, sophisticāt-, from Latin sophisticus, sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophistēs, sophist; see sophist.] so·phis′ti·ca′tion n.so·phis′ti·ca′tor n.MedicalSeesophisticate |