How To Use Subtilize In A Sentence
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He was subtilized someone must have entered his room.
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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
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Its value bears chiefly on change: it can be intensified or subtilized.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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But Philosophy is more than the attempt to refine and subtilize our ordinary words so as to fit them for the higher service of interpretative thought, more even than the endeavour to improve the stock of ideas no matter how come by, by which we interpret to ourselves whatever it imports us to understand.
Progress and History
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Women are peculiarly fitted to further such a combination — first, from their greater tendency to mingle affection and imagination with passion, and thus subtilize it into sentiment; and next, from that dread of what overtaxes their intellectual energies, either by difficulty, or monotony, which gives them an instinctive fondness for lightness of treatment and airiness of expression, thus making them cut short all prolixity and reject all heaviness.
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
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I'm sorry to say your explanation subtilizes me.
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I hope I have made clear that intuitionism on the one hand subtilizes logic, on the other hand denounces logic as a source of truth.
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The bottle of the gall subtracts from thence all the superfluous choler; whence it is brought to another shop or work-house to be yet better purified and fined, that is, the heart, which by its agitation of diastolic and systolic motions so neatly subtilizeth and inflames it, that in the right side ventricle it is brought to perfection, and through the veins is sent to all the members.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
