SOPHISTICATE

I. transitive verb (-cated; -cating) Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin sophisticatus, past participle of sophisticare, from Latin sophisticus sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophistēs sophist Date: 15th century to alter deceptively, to deprive of genuineness, naturalness, or simplicity, to make complicated or complex, II. noun Date: 1923 a ~d person