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Subtilize

verb
(past & past part. subtilized; pres. part. subtilizing)
1.
Mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words.
2.
Make more subtle or refined.  Synonyms: rarefy, sublimate.
3.
Make (senses) more keen.  Synonym: subtilise.





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"Subtilize" Quotes from Famous Books



... wonderful net where all the arteries close in a terminating point; which arteries, taking their rise and origin from the left capsule of the heart, bring through several circuits, ambages, and anfractuosities, the vital, to subtilize and refine them to the ethereal purity of animal spirits. Nay, in such a studiously musing person you may espy so extravagant raptures of one as it were out of himself, that all his natural faculties for that time will seem to be suspended from each their proper charge and office, and ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


Words linked to "Subtilize" :   know apart, heighten, modify, change, alter, sharpen, rarefy, sublimate, discriminate


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