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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1585
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(Sophistically,) -ie, adv. [ME and e.m.E. sofistically (Wyclif), sophystycally (1471) etc.; Sophistical(l adj.] By means of sophistry; in a specious or fallacious manner. — 1585 Calderwood IV 339.
Affirming, that maters of religioun would not be handled sophisticallie … nor dissimulatioun used in them
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