v., adj., & n.
--v.
1. tr. make (a person etc.) educated, cultured, or refined.
2 tr. make (equipment or techniques etc.) highly developed or complex.
3 tr. a involve (a subject) in sophistry. b mislead (a person) by sophistry.
4 tr. deprive (a person or thing) of its natural simplicity, make artificial by worldly experience etc.
5 tr. tamper with (a text etc.) for purposes of argument etc.
6 tr. adulterate (wine etc.).
7 intr. use sophistry.
--adj. sophisticated.
--n. a sophisticated person.
Derivatives:
sophistication n.
Etymology: med.L sophisticare tamper with f. sophisticus (as SOPHISM)