Hypertext Webster Gateway: "refined"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Refined \Re*fined"\ (-f?nd"), a.
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured;
delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined
sentiments.

Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens.
--Peacham.
-- {Re*fin"ed*ly} (r?*f?n"?d*l?), adv. -- {Re*fin"ed*ness},
n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Refine \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.

I will bring the third part through the fire, and
will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii.
9.

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.

Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges.
--Milton.

Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

refined
adj 1: used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel;
"she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship";
"refined people with refined taste" [ant: {unrefined}]
2: freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar";
"refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare [syn: {processed}]
[ant: {unrefined}]
3: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that
comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner";
"maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: {polished},
{svelte}, {urbane}]
4: made pure [syn: {purified}, {sublimate}]
5: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: {elegant}, {graceful}]
6: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a
neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans
upset" [syn: {neat}, {tasteful}]


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