desophisticate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
de- + sophisticate
Verb[edit]
desophisticate (third-person singular simple present desophisticates, present participle desophisticating, simple past and past participle desophisticated)
- (transitive) To clear from sophism or error.
- 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
- [he] in sound, sterling, desophisticating sense was far superior to him
References[edit]
“desophisticate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.