refine
refine
v. trans.
Purify: P. and V. κᾰθαίρειν.
Refine (gold): Ar. ἀ̆φεψειν.
Civilise: P. and V. παιδεύειν, ἡμεροῦν.
Refine upon (a word or thought): V. κομψεύειν (acc.) (Soph. Ant. 324).
Absol., practise refinements (subtle distinctions): P. κομψεύεσθαι, P. and V. λεπτουργεῖν.
v. trans.
Purify: P. and V. κᾰθαίρειν.
Refine (gold): Ar. ἀ̆φεψειν.
Civilise: P. and V. παιδεύειν, ἡμεροῦν.
Refine upon (a word or thought): V. κομψεύειν (acc.) (Soph. Ant. 324).
Absol., practise refinements (subtle distinctions): P. κομψεύεσθαι, P. and V. λεπτουργεῖν.
REFINE
PROP. defaecare (e.g. vinum): liquare: eliquare: deliquare (of liquids). to refine sugar *saccharum coquere.
Figuratively expolire: perpolire: excolere. Refined habits etc. politior humanitas: refined life cultus; vitae cultus: refined luxury eruditus luxus (Tac. Ann. 16 18).
PROP. defaecare (e.g. vinum): liquare: eliquare: deliquare (of liquids). to refine sugar *saccharum coquere.
Figuratively expolire: perpolire: excolere. Refined habits etc. politior humanitas: refined life cultus; vitae cultus: refined luxury eruditus luxus (Tac. Ann. 16 18).
refine:
A. Lit.:
1. purgo, 1 (to purify): to melt gold along with lead to r. it, aurum ut purgetur cum plumbo coquere, Plin. 33, 3, 19: v.PURIFY .
2. excŏquo, xi, ctum, 3 (to melt out): silver r.d, purified, and made dazzling white by removing all its impurities, argentum excoctum, omnibusque ex eo vitiis detractis emaculatum et candefactum, Gell. 6, 5, ad fin. (q. v.): Ov. F. 4, 786.
3. dēfaeco, 1 (to strain off the lees; of liquids): to r. wine, d. vinum, Plin. 18, 26, 63: Col.: v.TO STRAIN . Phr.: r.d gold, aurum ad obrussam, Suet. Ner. 44; obryzum aurum, Vulg. 2 Paralip. iii. 5: r.d silver, argentum pustulatum, Suet. Ner. 44: Mart. (also pūsŭlātus, blistered): to r. sugar, *sacchărum coquere.
B. Fig.:
I. Act.: To polish:
1. excŏlo, cŏlui, cultum, 3 (to improve): to r. human life, hominum vitam e., Cic. Off. 2, 4, 15: Virg. Aen. 6, 663: civilised and r.d, mansuefacti et exculti, Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 62.
2. expŏlio, 4: the (past) night has r.d you and made you a man, nox te expolivit hominemque reddidit, Cic. de Or. 2, 10, 40. Join: excultus atque e., id. Brut. 25, 95.
3. pŏlio, 4 (chiefly in part. pass.: v.REFINED ): to r. an oration, p. orationem, Cic. de Or. 1, 14, 63: v. POLISH , IMPROVE . (N.B.--Perpolio means to put a finishing stroke to);
II. Neut.: To draw minute distinctions: expr. by a phr.: subtilius disserere, Cic. Am. 5, 18; quaerere, id. ib. 2, 7: to r. rather too much upon things, res aliquanto minutius tractare, id. Fin. 4, 3, 7: teachers that r. over much, acutuli et minuti doctores, Gell. 17, 5.
A. Lit.:
1. purgo, 1 (to purify): to melt gold along with lead to r. it, aurum ut purgetur cum plumbo coquere, Plin. 33, 3, 19: v.
2. excŏquo, xi, ctum, 3 (to melt out): silver r.d, purified, and made dazzling white by removing all its impurities, argentum excoctum, omnibusque ex eo vitiis detractis emaculatum et candefactum, Gell. 6, 5, ad fin. (q. v.): Ov. F. 4, 786.
3. dēfaeco, 1 (to strain off the lees; of liquids): to r. wine, d. vinum, Plin. 18, 26, 63: Col.: v.
B. Fig.:
I. Act.: To polish:
1. excŏlo, cŏlui, cultum, 3 (to improve): to r. human life, hominum vitam e., Cic. Off. 2, 4, 15: Virg. Aen. 6, 663: civilised and r.d, mansuefacti et exculti, Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 62.
2. expŏlio, 4: the (past) night has r.d you and made you a man, nox te expolivit hominemque reddidit, Cic. de Or. 2, 10, 40. Join: excultus atque e., id. Brut. 25, 95.
3. pŏlio, 4 (chiefly in part. pass.: v.
II. Neut.: To draw minute distinctions: expr. by a phr.: subtilius disserere, Cic. Am. 5, 18; quaerere, id. ib. 2, 7: to r. rather too much upon things, res aliquanto minutius tractare, id. Fin. 4, 3, 7: teachers that r. over much, acutuli et minuti doctores, Gell. 17, 5.