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Webster 1913 Edition

Sophistication

So-phisˊti-ca′tion

,

Noun.

[Cf. LL.

sophisticatio

, F.

sophistication

.]

The act of sophisticating; adulteration;

as, the

sophistication

of drugs

.

Boyle.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sophistication

SOPHISTICA'TION

,

Noun.

The act of adulterating; a counterfeiting or debasing the purity of some thing be a foreign admixture; adulteration.