Meanings
adjectivesophisticative (comparative more sophisticative, superlative most sophisticative)
comparative more sophisticative · superlative most sophisticative
- deceptive; sophistical.
A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction.
1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247
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