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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Subtilize" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



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



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