Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making subtile, fine, or thin.
- noun In chem., the operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapor.
- noun Nicety in drawing distinctions, etc.
- noun Also spelled
subtilisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making subtile.
- noun (Old Chem.) The operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapor.
- noun Refinement; subtlety; extreme attenuation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of making
subtle . - noun chemistry, obsolete The operation of making so
volatile as to rise insteam orvapour . - noun
refinement ;subtlety ; extremeattenuation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Let the Japanese anime creators doing the director … Hollywood will loss the Asian subtilization!!!
Spielberg Adapting Ghost in the Shell into Live-Action 3D! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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We have been able to show in another place how the composition of the apparatus from the two systems permits a subtilization even of the normal activity which would be impossible for a single system.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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Her love for Dick pressed upon and agonized her; it was like a dagger whose steel was being slowly reddened in the flames of brandy, and in this subtilization of the brain the remotest particles of pain detached themselves, until life seemed to her nothing but a burning and unbearable frenzy.
A Mummer's Wife 1892
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Kramer, is to fight against the dogma of the objectivity of the real, common base to the conservative vision of the world and to the doxa of cinema, notably documentary, as the recording of the same 'reality.'"this:" In the past few months, the Cahiers have on numerous occasions spoken of 'a subtilization of cinema 'and of' subtle cinema, 'in order to describe what in contemporary cinema seems to them the strongest and the newest.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Kramer, is to fight against the dogma of the objectivity of the real, common base to the conservative vision of the world and to the doxa of cinema, notably documentary, as the recording of the same 'reality.'"this:" In the past few months, the Cahiers have on numerous occasions spoken of 'a subtilization of cinema 'and of' subtle cinema, 'in order to describe what in contemporary cinema seems to them the strongest and the newest.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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