资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Sophisticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sophisticating}.] [LL.
   sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.]
   To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage;
   to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. --Howell.

         To sophisticate the understanding.       --Southey.

         Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to
         sophisticate, not to refine.             --M. Arnold.

         They purchase but sophisticated ware.    --Dryden.

   Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.