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n.
That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.
superl.
Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
a.
Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
n.
Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
a.
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
v. t.
Refined; select; excellent; choice.
n.
Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
imp. & p. p.
of Refine
v. t.
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
n.
The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement.
n.
One who, or that which, refines.
v. t.
To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.
a.
Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.
n.
A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
pl.
of Refinery
n.
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.
n.
A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
n.
The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
v. t.
To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
v. t.
To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
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