Refine definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary REFI'NE, v.t. 1 ... will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. Zechariah 13. 3. To purify ... speak of a refined mind, refined morals, refined principles. To refine the heart or soul, to cleanse it from all carnal ... as it runs, refines. 3. To affect nicety. Men sometimes refine in speculation beyond the limits of practical truth. He makes ... 2005) v 1: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down] 2: make more complex, intricate, or ...
over-refine definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: refine too much or with excess of subtlety; "He is overrefining this matter" [syn: overrefine, over- refine]
... to polish glass, marble, metals and the like. 2. To refine; to wear off rudeness, rusticity and coarseness; to make elegant ... smoothen, shine] 2: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down] 3: bring to a highly developed, finished ... glossy usually by friction ; burnish 2. to smooth, soften, or refine in manners or condition 3. to bring to a highly ... smooth or glossy by rubbing. 2 (esp. as polished adj.) refine or improve; add finishing touches to. --n. 1 a substance ... as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc. 2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; ...
... life. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical ... and rationally ordered stage of cultural development 2. a. educate, refine b. socialize 1 intransitive verb to acquire the customs and ... of a barbarous or primitive stage of society. 2 enlighten; refine and educate. Derivatives: civilizable adj. civilizer n. Etymology: F civiliser ... in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her ... state. [Obs. or R.] ``Civilizing adultery.'' --Milton. Syn: To polish; refine; humanize. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (civilizes, civilizing, civilized) Note: in ... V-ing Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms v. a. Refine, cultivate, educate, polish, enlighten, improve, humanize, reclaim from barbarism. ...
... the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. 2. In chimistry, to refine by repeated distiliation or sublimation, by which the fine parts ... pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" [syn: refine, rectify] 3: bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong ... 1 adjust or make right; correct, amend. 2 purify or refine, esp. by repeated distillation. 3 find a straight line equal ... a conflicting opinion would have rectified. --Burke. 2. (Chem.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the ... reform, adjust, regulate, straighten, set right, make right. 2. ( Chem. ) Refine, purify. Moby Thesaurus accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt ...
... or fine; to make less gross or coarse. 2. To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments. SUB'TILIZE, v.i. To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions. In whatever manner ... v. (also -ise) 1 tr. a make subtle. b elevate; refine. 2 intr. (usu. foll. by upon) argue or reason subtly ... or fine; to make less gross or coarse. 2. To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments. Nor as ... s 1913 Dictionary Subtilize Sub"til*ize, v. i. To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions. --Milner. Soule's ... I. v. a. 1. Make thin. 2. Rarefy, etherealize. 3. Refine excessively, make over-nice. II. v. n. Refine, be ...
... sugar etc.) [syn: refining, refinement, purification] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Refine Re*fine" (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p ... separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii. 9. 2. To ... like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the ...
... in full joy elaborate a sigh. 2. To improve or refine by successive operations. The heat of the sun elaborates the ... bee elaborates honey" 3: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate] 4: work out in detail; "elaborate a plan ... sigh, --Young. 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to ... v. a. 1. Bestow labor upon, work out. 2. Improve, refine, mature, ripen, prepare thoroughly, work out with (great) care. II ... princely, produce, proud, put together, put up, raise, ramified, rear, refine, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, rich, ripen, ritzy, ...
... by labor or study; to advance the growth of; to refine and improve by correction of faults, and enlargement of powers ... cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, crop, work] 3: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical ... culture 2a c. to improve by labor, care, or study ; refine < cultivate the mind > 3. further, encourage < cultivate the arts > 4 ... care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. --Addison. The mind of ... for crops, raise crops from, improve by husbandry. 2. Improve, refine, elevate, civilize, meliorate, make better, train, discipline, develop. 3. Study ... in tune, put to school, quicken, raise, rake, ready, rear, refine, refined, rehearse, ripen, run after, season, send to school, ...
... returns again to the solid state. [See Sublimation.] 2. To refine and exalt; to highthen; to elevate. And as his actions ... century 1. a. sublime 1 b. archaic to improve or refine as if by subliming 2. to divert the expression of ... by heat, and usu. allow it to solidify again. 3 refine; purify; idealize. --adj. 1 Chem. (of a substance) sublimated. 2 ... solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. 2. To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate. The precepts of Christianity ... of English Synonyms v. a. 1. ( Chem. ) See sublime. 2. Refine, exalt, elevate, heighten. Moby Thesaurus aerate, aerify, alluvion, alluvium, alter ... moraine, offscum, oxygenate, percolate, perfume, precipitate, precipitation, purify, rectify, reek, refine, repress, scoria, screen, scum, sediment, send out, separate, settlings, ...
... adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Refine Re*fine" (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p ... separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii. 9. 2. To ... like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the ...
... Let us try advent'rous work. 6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried. 7. To search carefully into ... powers of endurance c. demonstrate, prove 3. a. obsolete purify, refine b. to melt down and procure in a pure state ... the good. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot. 2. To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure ... essay. 4. (Law.) Hear, examine judicially, adjudicate, adjudge. 5. Purify, refine. 6. Subject to trial, put to the test, sound. II ... prove, pull for, purify, put to trial, rack, rectify, referee, refine, research, road-test, rough draft, rough sketch, run a sample ...
... 3.0 (2005) n 1: one whose work is to refine a specific thing; "he was a sugar refiner" Merriam Webster's noun see refine Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a person or firm whose business is to refine crude oil, metal, sugar, etc. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Refiner ... s Cobuild Dictionary (refiners) Refiners are people or organizations that refine substances such as oil or sugar in order to sell ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SPIRITUALIZE, v.i. 1. To refine the intellect; to purify from the feculences of the world ... p. pr. & vb. n. Spiritualizing.] [Cf. F. spiritualiser.] 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms v. a. Purify, elevate, refine, make spiritual. Moby Thesaurus attenuate, bolt, clarify, clear, decrassify, dematerialize ... filtrate, idealize, immaterialize, insubstantialize, leach, lixiviate, percolate, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, sap, screen, separate, sieve, sift, spiritize, strain, sublimate, sublime, subtilize ...
... v.t. [See Fine, the adjective.] 1. To clarify; to refine; to purify; to defecate; to free from feculence or foreign ... gold or silver. In this sense, we now generally use refine; but fine is proper. Job 28. Proverbs 17. 3. To ... n. Fining.] [From Fine, a.] 1. To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold. It hath ... forfeit, forfeiture, pecuniary penalty. III. v. a. 1. Defecate, purify, refine. 2. Amerce, mulct, impose a fine upon, punish by a ...