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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



... say, arbitrary charlatans, who fill up with rhetoric the gaps in logic, who subtilize with more or less ingenuity, but uselessly, who lack the sense of coherence, with scholastic souls, casuists ...
— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos



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