sophisticalis

sophisticalis [CL sophisticus+-alis] 1 of or pertaining to specious argument or to argument in which unnecessarily fine distinctions are made. b (of text) about or containing sophisms. 1377 verbis ~ibus sive terminorum curiosa implicacione penitus pretermissis Conc. III 124a. b summule et alii parvi tractatus ~is in principio Libr. Cant. Dov. 357. 2 deceptive, deceitful, fraudulent. 1432 quocienscunque aliquis talis lusor ~is inventus fuerit ‥ sic ludens contra proclamacionem predictam (AssizeR Newport) March. S. Wales 82.

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