sophisticatev. t.[LL. sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.] 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.)()a. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.()So truth, while only one supplied the state,
Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. (Dryden.)