They purchase but sophisticated ware.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.
{ So*phis"ti*cate (?), So*phis"ti*ca`ted (?) }, a. Adulterated; not
pure; not genuine.
So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear,
and yet sophisticate.
Dryden.
So*phis`ti*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.]
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of
drugs. Boyle.
So*phis"ti*ca`tor (?), n. One who sophisticates.
Soph"ist*ry (?), n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.] 1. The art or
process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]
2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in
appearance only.
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word
in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the
conclusion.
Coleridge.
Syn. -- See Fallacy.
Soph"o*more (?), n. [Probably fr. soph or sophister + Gr. &?; foolish.
The word was probably introduced into the United States at an early
date, from the University of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms
at that university, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find
Soph- Mor as "the next distinctive appellation to Freshman," but the
term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from
whence it came.] One belonging to the second of the four classes in an
American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also
sophimore.]
{ Soph`o*mor"ic (?), Soph`o*mor"ic*al (?) }, a. Of or pertaining to a
sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in
style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation. [U. S.]
So*pho"ra (?), n. [Ar. &?;ufair.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of leguminous
plants. (b) A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the
common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
Soph"ta (?), n. See Softa.
So"pite (?), v. t. [L. sopitus, p. p. of sopire to put to sleep; akin
to sopor a sleeping draught, a heavy sleep.] To lay asleep; to put to
sleep; to quiet. [Obs.]
The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.
Fuller.
So*pi"tion (?), n. The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being
put to sleep; sleep. [Obs.]
Dementation and sopition of reason.
Sir T. Browne.
||So"por (?), n. [L.] (Med.) Profound sleep from which a person can be
||roused only with difficulty.
Sop"o*rate (?), v. t. [L. soporatus, p. p. or soporare to put to sleep,
fr. sopor a heavy sleep.] To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.]
Cudworth.
Sop`o*rif"er*ous (?), a. [L. soparifer; sopor a heavy sleep + ferere to
bring.] Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine."
Swift.
--- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.
Sop`o*rif"ic (?; 277), a. [L. sopor a heavy sleep (akin to somnus
sleep) + facere to make. See Somnolent, Fact.] Causing sleep; tending
to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
Syn. -- Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.
Sop`o*rif"ic, n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the
quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
{ Sop"o*rose` (?), Sop"o*rous (?) }, a. [From Sopor; cf. L. soporus,
fr. sopor a heavy sleep; F. soporeux.] Causing sleep; sleepy.
Sop"per (?), n. One who sops. Johnson.
Sop"py (?), a. Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or
sloppy.
It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy.
Dickens.
||So"pra (?), adv. [It., from L. supra above.] (Mus.) Above; before;
||over; upon.
So*pra"nist (?), n. (Mus.) A treble singer.
So*pra"no (?), n.; pl. E. Sopranos (#), It. Soprani (#). [It., fr.
soprano superior, highest, fr. sopra above, L. supra. See Sovereign.]
(Mus.) (a) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of
female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices. (b)
A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.
Sops"a*vine (?), n. See Sops of wine, under Sop.
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So"ra (?), n. (Zoöl.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common
in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with
black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and
sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail,
Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow
chicken, and orto.
King sora, the Florida gallinule.