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Subtilize v. t. (past & past part. subtilized; pres. part. subtilizing)

To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments. "Nor as yet have we subtilized ourselves into savages."

Subtilize v. i. To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.

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Etymology of 'Subtilize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... words, besides what are above written, they spoke together; but I understood no more, and even question whether I fairly understood so much as this. By long brooding over our recollections, we subtilize them into something akin to imaginary stuff, and hardly capable of being distinguished from it. In a few moments they were completely beyond ear-shot. A breeze stirred after them, and awoke the leafy tongues of the surrounding trees, which forthwith began to babble, as if innumerable gossips had ...

— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... besides what are above written, they spoke together; but I understood no more, and even question whether I fairly understood so much as this. By long brooding over our recollections, we subtilize them into something akin to imaginary stuff, and hardly capable of being distinguished from it. In a few moments they were completely beyond ear-shot. A breeze stirred after them, and awoke the leafy tongues of the surrounding trees, which forthwith began ...

— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne