sophisticate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.

   “The party to which Mrs. Berlinton was the loadſtone, was far more attractive to the diſciples of nature, though leſs ſedulouſly ſought by thoſe whom the manners and maxims of the common world had ſophiſticated.”

2. fiil To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
3. fiil To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
4. fiil To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.).

   “How be it, it were harde to construe this lecture; Sophisticatid craftely is many a confecture; […]”

5. fiil To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.

   “The heavy hand of the high Thunderer Shall light on thee; and thou I doubt ſhalt be His Furies object, and ſhalt teſtifie By thine infamous lifes accurſed ſtate, VVhat now thy ſhame-leſs lips ſophiſticate.”

6. fiil To apply an artificial technique to (something).

   “[T]hey ſit in ſome ſun-ſhining place in a chamber or ſome other ſecret roome, where hauing a looking-glaſſe before them they ſophiſticate and dye their haire with the foreſaid drugs, […]”

7. fiil To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).

   “The benevolence of her heart taught her, in this inſtance, to ſophiſticate.”

8. sıfat Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
9. sıfat Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
10. sıfat Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.

    “So truth, while only one ſupply'd the ſtate, Grew ſcarce, and dear, and yet ſophiſticate.”

11. sıfat Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
12. isim A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.

    “Patrick Star: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing. SpongeBob SquarePants: Yea verily!”