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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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Verdant :: Verdant (a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth..

Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.

Sophisticate :: Sophisticate (v. t.) To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine..

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

Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.

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

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

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

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

Naive :: Naive (a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks..

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

Sophisticate :: Sophisticate (a.) Alt. of Sophisticate.

Nias :: Nias (n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person..

Sophisticating :: Sophisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sophisticat.

Ceratine :: Ceratine (a.) Sophistical.

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..

Sophistic :: Sophistic (a.) Alt. of Sophistica.

Refel :: Refel (v. t.) To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister..

Sophistical :: Sophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.