subtilize
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Verb[edit]
subtilize (third-person singular simple present subtilizes, present participle subtilizing, simple past and past participle subtilized)
- (transitive) To make subtle; to make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.
- (transitive) To refine; to spin into niceties.
- to subtilize arguments
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Nor as yet have we subtilized ourselves into savages.
- (intransitive) To use subtle arguments or distinctions.