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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated
\So*phis"ti*ca`ted\, a.
   Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

         So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare
         and dear, and yet sophisticate.          --Dryden.

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.

         To sophisticate the understanding.       --Southey.

         Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to
         sophisticate, not to refine.             --M. Arnold.

         They purchase but sophisticated ware.    --Dryden.

   Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.

資料來源 : WordNet®

sophisticate
     n : a worldly-wise person [syn: {man of the world}]
     v 1: make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had
          sophisticated the young girls"
     2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about
        in order to mislead or deceive [syn: {twist}, {twist
        around}, {pervert}, {convolute}]
     3: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;
        "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: {doctor}, {doctor
        up}]
     4: make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"