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English
Etymology
Latin subtiliare.
Verb
subtiliate (third-person singular simple present subtiliates, present participle subtiliating, simple past and past participle subtiliated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make thin or rare; to rarefy.
1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. , (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:The same being washed after the manner of lead, be singular for to subtiliat the thicke eye-lids.
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