rarify

For a poem that is about the wish for freedom to be common, the word choice seems to rarify, rather than familiarize, the diction.

Patrick Rosal reads Robert Hayden Lemon Hound 2008

For a poem that is about the wish for freedom to be common, the word choice seems to rarify, rather than familiarize, the diction.

Archive 2008-10-01 Lemon Hound 2008

The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarify it.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

That there is an Air abroad sufficient to divide and resolve them, or the Heat of the Sun has been strong enough to exhale them, that is, to rarify them, so as to render them lighter than the Air through which they were to pass.

The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience John Claridge

The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarify it.

Cæsar Plutarch 1909

As a matter of fact, a fairly high vacuum can be maintained with the air pump closed down, and only the indirect pumping action of the falling water operating to rarify the contents of the condenser body.

Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers 1902

To apply a cup, shave the skin and oil it; then take a narrow-mouthed glass, rarify the air within it by introducing a taper in full flame for a second, withdraw the taper and instantly apply the mouth of the glass to the skin and hold it closely applied till the cooling tends to form a vacuum in the glass and to draw up the skin, like a sucker.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

Their method of doing it is this: they hold one of these dry sticks in each hand, and by rubbing them hard and quick together, rarify the air in such a manner as to fetch fire in ten minutes.

The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published 1841

This may rarify the contrapuntal structures, making them easier to follow, but it comes at the expense of a certain elemental timelessness.

Ionarts 2008

The sub - stance of these alienable privileges has been refined to a rapor; and the splendid evanescence, that remains, is nothing but the air-blown bubble of the school-boy, whose tenuous essence has scarce weight enough to gravitate, or density to rarify, and will vai. ish in a sun-beam, or dissolve at the touch.

The works in verse and prose 1812