subtilize

How To Use subtilize In A Sentence

• He was subtilized someone must have entered his room.
• And if reputation and reward shall attend these conquests, which depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words, it is no wonder if the wit of man so employed, should perplex, involve, and subtilize the signification of sounds, so as never to want something to say in opposing or defending any question; the victory being adjudged not to him who had truth on his side, but the last word in the dispute. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Its value bears chiefly on change: it can be intensified or subtilized.
• To play with important truths, to disturb the repose of established tenets, to subtilize objections, and elude proof, is too often the sport of youthful vanity, of which maturer experience commonly repents. Christian Morals
• Remember they are trying to subtilize, trying to eliminate the gross, and are trying to make everything in which the Light can function. The Artist and His Audience
• Humboldt considers the Mexican Indian as destitute of all imagination, though when to a certain degree educated, he attributes to him facility in learning, a clearness of understanding, a natural turn for reasoning, and a particular aptitude to subtilize and seize trifling distinctions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
• His first track sets the pace for the entire set, as he subtilizes the high drama of the famous c-sharp minor prelude which has become so hackneyed, often turned into a cartoon of itself owing to its own wide popularity.
• Avenarius, Willy, Mach, etc. subtilize this process so far as to reduce all experience to internal The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• Nietzsche is the great exemplar of complicating thought, exploiting knowledge in the interests of interrogations - not in order to clarify and focus but to subtilize and dissociate them.
• Almost suffocating under the oppression of repressed feelings, using art only to repeat and rehearse for himself his own internal tragedy, after having wearied emotion, he began to subtilize it. Life of Chopin