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Definition of sophist

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Sophist (n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt..

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Lamb :: Lamb (n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized..

Vermiculate :: Vermiculate (a.) Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical..

Sophistication :: Sophistication (n.) The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..

Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

Philosophism :: Philosophism (n.) Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry..

Senior :: Senior (n.) One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary..

Sophister :: Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument..

Chirosophist :: Chirosophist (n.) A fortune teller.

Desophisticate :: Desophisticate (v. t.) To clear from sophism or error.

Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.

Sophisticated :: Sophisticated (a.) Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

Sophist :: Sophist (n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt..

Sophist :: Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner..

Casuistry :: Casuistry (a.) Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals..

Theosopher :: Theosopher (n.) A theosophist.

Gymnosophy :: Gymnosophy (n.) The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.

Theosophist :: Theosophist (n.) One addicted to theosophy.

Cavillation :: Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.