Sophisticalness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sophistic \So*phis"tic\, Sophistical \So*phis"tic*al\, a. [L.
     sophisticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sophistique.]
     Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry;
     fallaciously subtile; not sound.
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           His argument . . . is altogether sophistical.
                                                    --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster] -- {So*phis"tic*al*ly}, adv. --
     {So*phis"tic*al*ness}, n.
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