Sophisticator

so·phis·ti·cate  (s-fst-kt)

v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates

v.tr.

1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.

2. To make impure; adulterate.

3. To make more complex or inclusive; refine.

v.intr.

To use sophistry.

n. (-kt)

A sophisticated person.

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[Middle English sophisticaten, to adulterate, from Medieval Latin sophisticre, sophistict-, from Latin sophisticus, sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophists, sophist; see sophist.]

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so·phisti·cation n.

so·phisti·cator n.