"Subtilize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of solidity &c. 321; subtility[obs3]; subtilty[obs3], subtlety; sponginess, compressibility. rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization[obs3]. vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification[obs3]. ether &c. (gas) 334. V. rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize[obs3]. Adj. rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light &c. 320; cavernous, spongy &c. (hollow) 252. rarefied &c. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... en la "Daily News": "But we are inclined to think that Esperanto, having no literature and no vital connection with daily living to enrich and refine and subtilize it, would be a poor language, in which it would be well nigh impossible to communicate any ideas but the simplest and ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 1 • Various
... which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all. — Why then do you try to enlarge your mind? Subtilize it. Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale's head, so that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not that the body is now completely ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville |
