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Definition of Subtilizing
1. subtilize [v] - See also: subtilize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtilizing
Literary usage of Subtilizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The System of Nature, Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, Denis Diderot, H. D. Robinson (1889)
"Thus by dint of reasoning and subtilizing, the word God no longer presents any
one image; when they spoke of it, it was impossible to understand them, ..."
2. The Hammersmith Protestant Discussion: Being an Authenticated Report of the by John Cumming, Daniel French (1852)
"Listen! and, my friends, if there be a man in England capable of subtilizing away
the strength and the spirit of words, and making them evaporate into ..."
3. The Hammersmith Protestant Discussion: Being an Authenticated Report of the by John Cumming, Daniel French (1852)
"Listen! and, niy friends, if there be a man in England capable of subtilizing
away the strength and the spirit of words, and making them evaporate into ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"They spent their whole lives in agitating and subtilizing questions of faith.
Warburton, Works, IX. viii. By long brooding over our recollect ions we ..."
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