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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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Unsophisticated :: Unsophisticated (a.) Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.

Deipnosophist :: Deipnosophist (n.) One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals..

Philosophistic :: Philosophistic (a.) Alt. of Philosophistica.

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..

Plain :: Plain (superl.) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.

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

Sophister :: Sophister (n.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.

Crocodility :: Crocodility (n.) A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.

Theosopher :: Theosopher (n.) A theosophist.

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

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

Sophisticated :: Sophisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Sophisticat.

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

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

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..

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..

Philosophistical :: Philosophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.

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

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

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