Definition of sophist

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

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Nias :: Nias (n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person..
Sophisticate :: Sophisticate (a.) Alt. of Sophisticate.
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..
Deipnosophist :: Deipnosophist (n.) One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals..
Innocent :: Innocent (n.) An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot..
Verdant :: Verdant (a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth..
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..
Philosophistic :: Philosophistic (a.) Alt. of Philosophistica.
Sophisticator :: Sophisticator (n.) One who sophisticates.
Unsophisticated :: Unsophisticated (a.) Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
Naive :: Naive (a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks..
Sophistication :: Sophistication (n.) The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs..
Theosophistical :: Theosophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.
Sophister :: Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument..
Ceratine :: Ceratine (a.) Sophistical.
Theosophist :: Theosophist (n.) One addicted to theosophy.
Desophisticate :: Desophisticate (v. t.) To clear from sophism or error.
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