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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of subtilise.

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Examples

  • These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Certain as a man can be that she was his own daughter, he often wondered whence she got herself — her red-gold hair, now greyed into a special colour; her direct, spirited face, so different from his own rather folded and subtilised countenance, her little light figure, when he and most of the Forsytes were tall.

    To Let 2004

  • My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • We have not lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century; nor as yet have we subtilised ourselves into savages.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

  • This may be termed Neo-Druidism, a kind of Druidism subtilised and reformed on the model of Christianity, which may be seen growing more and more obscure and mysterious, until the moment of its total disappearance.

    The Poetry of the Celtic Races. V. 1909

  • There are moments of mental exaltation and ecstasy when our thoughts are purified, subtilised, etherealised as it were.

    Indiana 1900

  • Certain as a man can be that she was his own daughter, he often wondered whence she got herself -- her red-gold hair, now greyed into a special colour; her direct, spirited face, so different from his own rather folded and subtilised countenance, her little lithe figure, when he and most of the Forsytes were tall.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • Certain as a man can be that she was his own daughter, he often wondered whence she got herself -- her red-gold hair, now greyed into a special colour; her direct, spirited face, so different from his own rather folded and subtilised countenance, her little lithe figure, when he and most of the Forsytes were tall.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

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