From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Sophisticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sophisticating.] [LL.
sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.]
To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage;
to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. --Howell.
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To sophisticate the understanding. --Southey.
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Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to
sophisticate, not to refine. --M. Arnold.
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They purchase but sophisticated ware. --Dryden.
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Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated
\So*phis"ti*ca`ted\, a.
Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
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So truth, while only one supplied the state,
Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. --Dryden.
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