Usually means: Deceptive reasoning; plausible but fallacious.
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  1. sophistic: Merriam-Webster
  2. sophistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sophistic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sophistic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sophistic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sophistic, sophistic: Wordnik
  7. sophistic: Wiktionary
  8. sophistic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sophistic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sophistic: Dictionary.com
  11. Sophistic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sophistic: Rhymezone
  13. Sophistic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sophistic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. sophistic: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sophistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sophistic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sophistic: Legal dictionary

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  1. sophistic: Encyclopedia

(Note: See sophistically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sophistic)

adjective:  Pertaining to the ancient sophists.
adjective:  Sophistical.
noun:  (historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”) [Pertaining to the ancient sophists.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of sophistic [(historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.]

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