Obs. rare–1. [f. SOPHISTRY, after Gr. κατασοφίζεσθαι to outwit, to evade by quibbling, f. κατά down, etc. + σοφίζ-εσθαι το quibble, etc.] Quibbling, deceit.
1609. J. Melvill, Lett., in Diary (1842), 782. Greater craft … and catasophistrie wer nevir usit.
