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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



... 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


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


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