Word Meanings - DESOPHISTICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To clear from sophism or error. Hare.

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• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• SOPHISM
  The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive. When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or "fallacy". I. Watts. Let us first rid ourselves
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• CLEAR-CUT
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• CLEARWING
  A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
• CLEARAGE
  The act of reforming anything; clearance.
• CLEAR-SHINING
  Shining brightly. Shak.
• CLEAR-SIGHTED
  Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
• CLEARSTORY; CLERESTORY
  The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
• ERROR
  The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. The difference between the observed value
• CLEARING
  1. The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South. 2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation. A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. J. Burroughs. 3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making
• CLEAREDNESS
  The quality of being cleared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller.
• THEOSOPHISM
  Belief in theosophy. Murdock.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• PERINUCLEAR
  Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
• CLEAR
  cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, broght, loud, distinct, renownwd; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. 1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and
• TERRORISM
  The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.
• BINUCLEAR; BINUCLEATE
  Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.