See Also: sophistic(dictionary)

gambade (iou) and sophistic (iou)


gambade (iou)



gambade noun & verb. E16.
[French, from Italian gambata, from gamba leg: see -ADE. Cf. GAMBADO noun2, GAMBOL noun & adjective.]
A. noun. A leap or bound (of a horse); a caper, a frisk; a prank. E16.
B. verb intrans. = GAMBOL verb. E-M16.
? Supplanted by variant GAMBOL during 16; readopted by Sir Walter Scott in E19.

sophistic (iou)



sophistic adjective & noun. L15.
[Old & mod. French sophistique or Latin sophisticus, from sophista: see SOPHIST, -IC.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to sophistry or sophists; of the Nature of sophistry, specious, oversubtle. L15.
Music & Letters Criticism..that used to appear..over-sophisticated, even sophistic.
b. Pertaining to or characteristic of sophists of ancient Greece. M19.
Of a person: given to or using sophistry or specious reasoning. M16.
b. noun.
sing. & in pl. Sophistic argument or speculation, esp. as a subject of instruction. L15.
Sophistry, deceptiveness. M19.