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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1562-1581, 1635
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Sophistical(l, adj. [e.m.E. sophystycal (Caxton), sophisticall (Coverdale), f. as Sophistic adj.] = Sophistic adj. 2. — 1562-3 Winȝet I 67/30.
Requiring ȝour anssuer … in writt … and that synceirlie without sophistical contentioun of wordis 1581 Burne Disput. 81.
This is ane commone place, quhairfra ȝe souke sophisticall argumentis 1581 Burne Disput. 7b. 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 16.
Nature is … in ȝoung men sumquhat couerit, in men of aige mony wayis disagysit, be sophisticall profluence of wordis 1635 Wodrow in Hay Geneal. 93.
Lett not the sophisticall insinuations of the King's Advocatte … preponder my loyaltie
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