Remember they are trying to subtilize, trying to eliminate the gross, and are trying to make everything in which the Light can function. From Wordnik.com. [The Artist and His Audience] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [God, Aids & Circumcision] Reference
Avenarius, Willy, Mach, etc. subtilize this process so far as to reduce all experience to internal. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
By long brooding over our recollections, we subtilize them into something akin to imaginary stuff, and hardly capable of being distinguished from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
The ability of Toradora to subtilize is what makes it awesome: within that simple note we perceive of Yasuko's love towards Ryuuji, and we see that their love goes in two ways. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Chopin] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Morals] Reference
Germany was very limited: the disposition to subtilize, which was at that time universal throughout the German empire, led those who cultivated literature rather to refine upon what was before them, than to new inquiries. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
The theologian may subtilize, exaggerate, render as unintelligible as he pleases, the attributes with which he clothes his divinities, he will never be able to remove the contradictions which arise from the discordant qualities which he thus heaps together; neither will he be able to give man any other mode of judging than what arises from the exercise of his senses, such as they are actually found. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
IMMATERIALITY, IMMORTALITY; in short, all those vague unmeaning words he has invented by degrees, in order to subtilize and designate the attributes of the unknown power, which he believes he contains within himself; which he conjectures to be the concealed principle of all his visible actions when man once imbibes an idea that he cannot comprehend, he meditates upon it until he has given it a complete personification. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 1] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
When man had once renounced experience; when he had abjured his reason; when he had joined the banner of this enthusiastic novelty; he did nothing more, day after day, than subtilize the delirium, the ravings of his imagination: he pleased himself by continually sinking deeper into the most unfathomable depths of error: he felicitated himself on his discoveries; on his pretended knowledge; in an exact ratio as his understanding became enveloped in the mists of darkness, environed with the clouds of ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 1] Reference
Thereupon Mr. Arabin commenced to subtilize. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
How do these systematizers refine and subtilize?. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
It is then, that men approximating, reason together, combine their ideas, refine their notions, subtilize their theories; it is then also, that those who govern them avail themselves of invisible powers, to keep them within bounds, to render them docile, to enforce their obedience, to oblige them to live peaceably. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
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