[ad. med.L. sophisticāt-us, pa. pple. of sophisticāre: see next.]
† 1. = SOPHISTICATED ppl. a. 1. Obs.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), v. 51. Ȝif it be thykke or reed or blak, it is sophisticate, that is to seyne, contrefeted and made lyke it, for disceyt.
1477. Norton, Ordin. Alch., v. in Ashm. (1652), 60. Joyne trewe kindes not sophisticate.
1544. Phaër, Pestilence (1553), M vij. Bole armonyake,… not to brittle, nor to hye coloured, for suche is commonly sophisticate.
1586. Lupton, 1000 Notable Things (1675), 18. You shall know good and pure Azure from sophisticate and naughty Azure, if [etc.].
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., I. i. 11. The countrey … findeth … good and sufficient stuffe, neither fustie nor sophisticate.
1671. Maynwaring, Anc. & Mod. Pract. Physick, 66. Yet this cheap sophisticate Medicine … will cost you six times so much.
2. = SOPHISTICATED ppl. a. 2.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., I. iv. O heaven! that any thing … should suffer these rackt extremities, for the uttering of his sophisticate good parts.
1616. Pasquil & Kath., V. 12. O, this Sophisticate friendship, that dissolues With euery heate of Fancie.
1695. Ld. Preston, Boeth., III. 127. Thou hast now then the Form and Causes of that adulterate sophisticate Felicity.
1812. Crabbe, Tales, i. 200/12. ’Tis the savage state Is only good, and ours sophisticate!
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiogr., I. ii. 74. The feeling was true, though the expression was sophisticate and a fashion.
† 3. = SOPHISTICATED ppl. a. 3. Obs.
1531. Elyot, Gov., III. xi. (1880), II. 279. By the diligent studye of very philosophie (nat that whiche is sophisticate, and consisteth in sophismes).
1629. H. Burton, Truth’s Triumph, 169. Such is his sophisticate sophistry, and frothy wit.
1678. R. R[ussell], trans. Geber, II. I. II. iii. 45. They by another Reason thus argue and strengthen their own Sophisticate Opinion.
