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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

sophisticus

, Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.

sophistique

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

His argument . . . is altogether

sophistical

Macaulay.

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So-phis′tic-al-ly

adv.

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So-phis′tic-al-ness

Noun.

, SOPHIST'ICAL,

Adj.

Fallaciously subtil; not sound; as sophistical reasoning or argument.