Definition of sophist

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

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Sophisticate :: Sophisticate (v. t.) To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine..
Philosophistic :: Philosophistic (a.) Alt. of Philosophistica.
Sophisticated :: Sophisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Sophisticat.
Cavillation :: Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.
Sophisticated :: Sophisticated (a.) Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
Theosopher :: Theosopher (n.) A theosophist.
Refel :: Refel (v. t.) To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister..
Nias :: Nias (n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person..
Sophister :: Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument..
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..
Gymnosophy :: Gymnosophy (n.) The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.
Unsophisticate :: Unsophisticate (a.) Alt. of Unsophisticate.
Ceratine :: Ceratine (a.) Sophistical.
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.
Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
Casuistry :: Casuistry (a.) Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals..
Sophister :: Sophister (n.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.
Gymnosophist :: Gymnosophist (n.) One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature..
Theosophist :: Theosophist (n.) One addicted to theosophy.
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