subtiliate

English

Etymology

Latin subtiliare.

Verb

subtiliate (third-person singular simple present subtiliates, present participle subtiliating, simple past and past participle subtiliated)

1. (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.

Related terms

• subtiliation

References

• “subtiliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.