单词 | subtiliate |
释义 | † subtiliaten.adj. Obsolete. A. n. A volatile substance. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour > ability to become vapour > volatility > volatile matter subtiliatea1400 flyer1471 volatile1698 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 43 (MED) Þe medicyn þanne must be hoot & drie with subtiliate, as terebentine, to moiste bodies. B. adj. = subtiliated adj. Also as past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] > rarefied subtiliate?a1425 rarefied1523 subtiliated1603 attenuated?1624 attenuate1626 subtilized1628 extenuated1661 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > [adjective] > made or become thin subtiliate?a1425 attenuated1677 thinned1723 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 140v When..þe rote is subtiliate [L. subtiliatur] & þe extremitee ingrossed, þan in kuttyng þer is not so mych drede. a1500 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Ashm.) l. 454 (MED) Our bodyes eclypsede be of lyght And of her harde & drye compaccion suptylyate [1652 Compactyon subtylyat] Into her owyn fyrste mater retrogradiate. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 263 All whiche are moued, digested, subtiliate, attenuate, ryped, and made sweete. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xxiii. 563 Augustine giues the Angels most subtiliate bodies [L. corpora tenuissima], invisible, actiue, and not passiue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † subtiliatev. Obsolete. transitive. = subtilize v. 3. Occasionally also intransitive. Cf. earlier subtile v. 1, subtle v. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > make less dense [verb (transitive)] thinc1000 laska1375 rarefya1398 subtilea1425 subtiliate1551 extenuate1559 assubtiliate1582 assubtile1589 attenuate1594 subtilize1597 thinnify1693 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > remove impurities from [verb (transitive)] mereeOE spurge1303 fine1340 sendre1340 purea1350 purgec1350 purifya1398 depurea1400 clarifyc1430 expurge1483 defecatec1487 subtiliate1551 refine?1572 neatify1581 distil1599 sublimate1601 sweeten1601 depurate1620 infresh1635 lustre1645 lustrate1653 freshen1710 chasten1715 epurate1799 enchastena1806 dispollute1862 1551 T. Raynald tr. A. Vesalius Compend. Declar. Vertues Oile Imperial sig. Eiiv In this oile the foure elements..by the benefit of nature be so subtiliatid, raffinid, and depurid, that trueli neuer hitherto eni oile hathe ben..more simple, subtile and Aierial. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 169 He supposeth the body of Christe might be subtiliated, by his Diuine power, to passe through the doores. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 88 Sol so subtiliated by often reiteration of Aqua Regis vpon it, as that it becam almost an impalpable powder. 1597 tr. ‘Hortulanus’ Briefe Comm. in tr. R. Bacon Mirror of Alchimy viii. 24 But of the vnfixed part we must haue a great quantity, and giue it to the stone (which is made most clean without all filth) so often by masterie that the whole stone be caried vpward, sublimating & subtiliating. 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 54 Those spirits that subtiliated by Stils and Lymbecks, the fire is effectuall to their subliming. 1655 T. Vaughan Evphrates 67 The earth thickens the water, and on the contrary the water subtiliates the earth. 1836 A. B. Johnson Treat. Lang. 222 When we wish to predicate attraction where our senses cannot discover it, we are forced to subtiliate it verbally, till it becomes too subtile for our senses. Derivatives subtiliating adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] > rarefied > rarefying or characterized by rarefaction rarefactive?a1425 subtiliative?a1425 attenuant1603 subtilizing1611 subtiliating1659 rarefactional1909 1659 tr. R. Fludd Mosaicall Philos. v. vii. 105 That ever-acting and subtiliating spirit, which put his tabernacle in the Sun. 1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 6 A very dry and warm or subtiliating air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.a1400v.1551 |
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