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Re*fine" (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refined (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refining.] [Pref. re- + fine to make fine: cf. F. raffiner.] 1. 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.
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I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. Zech. xiii. 9.
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2. 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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Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges. Milton.
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Syn. -- To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
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Re*fine", v. i. 1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
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So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains,
Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines. Addison.
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2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
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Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories. Dryden.
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But let a lord once own the happy lines,
How the wit brightens! How the style refines! Pope.
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3. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. “He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy.” Atterbury.
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