\Soph"ist*ry\, n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.]
1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]
2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning
   sound in appearance only.
         The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part,
         in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in
         another sense in the conclusion.      --Coleridge.
Syn: See {Fallacy}.