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▪ I. † subˈtiliate, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs. rare.
[ad. med.L. subtīliātus, pa. pple. of subtīliāre (see next).]
Made thin or fine; rarefied.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. ii. i. in Ashm. (1652) 135 Of ther hard and dry Compactyon subtylyat. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 294 All whiche are moued, digested, subtiliate, attenuate, ryped, and made sweete. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie God 563 Augustine giues the Angels most subtiliate bodies, invisible, actiue, and not passiue.
▪ II. † subˈtiliate, v. Obs.
Also 5 sutilyate.
[f. med.L. subtīliāt-, pa. ppl. stem of subtīliāre, f. subtīlis subtle a.: see -ate3.]
trans. To make thin or tenuous; esp. to rarefy (a fluid); to sublime; to refine, purify.
14..MS. Ashm. 1408 xi. 31 Whosoever knowethe to sutilyate [quicksilver]. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 169 He supposeth the body of Christe might be subtiliated, by his Diuine power, to passe through the doores. 1582J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. i. xxxviii. 45 Our Quintaessentia solutiua..subtiliateth the humors, and evacuateth them dounewards. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. 88 Sol so subtiliated by often reiteration of Aqua Regis vpon it, as that it becam almost an impalpable powder. 1601Holland Pliny xxxii. ix. II. 443 The same being washed after the manner of lead, be singular for to subtiliat the thicke eye-lids. 1603― Plutarch's Mor. 1318 Being of this opinion, that the flame doth subtiliate and rarefie the aire. 1630Lord Banians 54 Those spirits that are subtiliated by Stils and Lymbecks, the fire is effectuall to their subliming. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋157 Subtiliated into a jubilee of spiritual Aporhæa's or evaporations. 1655T. Vaughan Euphrates 67 The earth thickens the water, and on the contrary the water subtiliates the earth. 1678R. Russell Geber i. i. 4 Much more attenuated and subtiliated than it was before.
Hence † subˈtiliated, † subˈtiliating ppl. adjs.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 159 To our subtiliated, sublimated new spirits of the Sorbon. 1650Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 14 A streame of subtiliated Atomes. 1665G. Harvey Adv. agst. Plague 6 A very dry and warm or subtiliating air. |