The little we do know about the people who lived here suggests they had a very sophisticated society. Lowest Prices on major brands!: Amtico; Luvanto; Karndean; Polyflor; Forbo; Cormar Carpets; Abingdon Flooring & others.

Pulled together by combining practical polypropylene technology and the finesse of luxury feel fibres for Abingdon’s new “Silk Tech PP yarn”, the end result is a bleach-cleanable, stain resistant, yet super soft finish. Ideal for modern homes. To make (something) more sophisticated ( “ complex, developed, or refined ” ); to develop, to refine. [from late 18th c.] Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state]. T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy. They were not at all sophisticated.

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sophistic, adj.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN. also figuratively ) To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; ( generally ) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.). [from early 15th c.] sophisticate, n., adj., and v.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.

Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined. sophistic, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.