Definition of "sophisticating" []

• Present participle of sophisticate. (verb)

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• "He ought to be a thorough Judge of Colors, to know all their Properties, and common Tricks that are used in sophisticating Dyes of all sorts, not with an Intention of cheating his Customers, but to guard against the Imposition of those who would impose upon him in the Sale of Goods."
• "Christianity has been disfigured by the corruptions of schismatising followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and perverting the simple doctrines he taught … caus (ing) good men to reject the whole in disgust and view Jesus himself as an imposter."
• "I thought I was so alone in the great debate of the sociologists … in that obsession with “sophisticating” their subject and the object of their analysis … which was certainly a way of leaving many people out."