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refined

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精煉的,優雅的,精細的

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

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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