Definition of: sophisticate

(sə·fis′tə·kāt) v. ·cat·ed, ·cat·ing v.t.
1. To make less simple or ingenuous in mind or manner; render worldly-wise or artificial.
2. To mislead or corrupt (a person).
3. To adulterate.
4. To falsify (a text, statement, etc.) by unauthorized or deceptive alterations.
—v.i.
5. To indulge in sophistry; be sophistic.
—noun (-kit, -kāt) A sophisticated person. [<Med. L sophisticatus, pp. of sophisticare <sophisticus sophistic]
—so·phis′ti·ca′tor noun