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sophisticate

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12 lettersPronunciation /səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acehiiopssttStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make more complex or refined

Word origin

From Middle English sophisticat, sophisticate (“adulterated; not genuine, counterfeit”), an adjective use of the past participle of sophisticaten (verb) See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

Used in a sentence

  • The party to which Mrs. Berlinton was the loadſtone, was far more attractive to the diſciples of nature, though leſs ſedulouſly ſought by thoſe whom the manners and maxims of the common world had ſophiſticated.
  • She was no scion of the English houses of Brown, Jones, or Robinson, born and bred in a London back slum, and christened plain Sarah or Mary, to be sophisticated later into Celestine or Mariette.
  • How be it, it were harde to construe this lecture; Sophisticatid craftely is many a confecture; […]

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