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Definition of Rarifies
1. rarify [v] - See also: rarify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rarifies
Literary usage of Rarifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"no more use of it, because it rarifies and cleanseth : we use it to this purpose
m our ordinary beer, which before was thick and fulsome. ..."
2. The conciliator, a reconcilement of the apparent contradictions in holy by Menasseh b. Israel (1842)
"4 Dew is formed by a humid vapour containing small earthy particles; the heat
raises, rarifies, and converts it into aqueous drops, which fall on the herbs ..."
3. The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern by George Gregory (1798)
"That heat which makes water boil, and which rarifies it only one ... rarifies its
vapour to eighteen hundred times the bulk of the water which produced it. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... from the operation of some active acid matter, w'uich rarifies, exalts, ...
as when leaven or yest rarifies, lightens, and ferments bread or wort. ..."
5. The Philosophical Grammar: Being a View of the Present State of Experimented by Benjamin Martin (1735)
"... the Soil being fandy, reflects prodigious Heat, which greatly rarifies the Air,
... in continued Streams as faft as it rarifies, and being ..."
6. The Philosophical Grammar: Being a View of the Present State of Experimented by Benjamin Martin (1755)
"... which greatly rarifies the Air, and ma- keth the more cold, ... in continued
Streams as fail as it rarifies, and being ..."
7. The Ways of Women in Their Physical, Moral and Intellectual Relations by Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith (1873)
"They could not have the same aerial freedom and levity. "Warmth of the body
rarifies the air thus inclosed, and with motion the temperature is raised, ..."
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