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Meanings of subtilise in English

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subtilitzar

Make (senses) more keen.

subtilitzar
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Examples for "subtilize"
Examples for "subtilize"
1
How do these systematizers refine and subtilize?
Thaddeus of Warsaw
2
Thereupon Mr. Arabin commenced to subtilize.
Barchester Towers
3
By long brooding over our recollections, we subtilize them into something akin to imaginary stuff, and hardly capable of being distinguished from it.
The Blithedale Romance
4
We are not now in search of the vanishing point where Matter subtilizes.
Seraphita
5
But Mr. Arabin went on subtilizing, regarding neither the archdeacon's raillery nor Eleanor's defence.
Barchester Towers
Usage of subtilise in English
1
We reduce digestion to thought; we subtilise secretions.
The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul
2
My boy, do not listen to those who, like me, subtilise on the good and the evil.
The Queen Pedauque
3
I have tried to improve and subtilise my tales with the passing of years, but have not made the progress I wish.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
4
What should not we see if we could still subtilise and improve more and more the instruments that help out weak and dull sight?
The Existence of God
5
Fragile, spiritual as is the apparition, the sunbeam refines, subtilises, spiritualises it still more.
Eleanor
6
My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
7
But now that she's more at ease with us-yousee?-there'sthe purity of line just the same-but subtilised-humanised-somehow!
Eleanor
8
We have not lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century; nor as yet have we subtilised ourselves into savages.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economic...
Translations for subtilise
Subtilise through the time