† subtiliatedadj.
Obsolete.
Made thin or fine; rarefied; refined, purified; diluted; = subtilized adj. at subtilize v. Derivatives.
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subtiliate?a1425
rarefied1523
subtiliated1603
attenuated?1624
attenuate1626
subtilized1628
extenuated1661
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 159 To our subtiliated, sublimated new spirits of the Sorbon.
1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes Prolegomena sig. e A streame of subtiliated Atomes.
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber i. i. 4 Much more attenuated and subtiliated than it was before.
1805 Monthly Anthol. & Boston Rev. July 358/2 The metaphysician becomes enraptured with the subtiliated delicacy of his intellectual alembick!
1865 B. Fincke On High Potencies & Homoeopathics 78 By the administration of so subtiliated substances certain matter of the organism is unerringly affected.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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