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Overrefinement :: Overrefinement (n.) Excessive refinement.

Test :: Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Polish :: Polish (n.) Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.

Naphtha :: Naphtha (n.) The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, -- used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc..

Exaltation :: Exaltation (n.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property..

Refinement :: Refinement (n.) The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas..

Civilization :: Civilization (n.) The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement..

Inelegancy :: Inelegancy (n.) The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners..

Culture :: Culture (n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action..

Rude :: Rude (superl.) Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

Subtilized :: Subtilization (n.) Refinement; subtlety; extreme attenuation.

Cultivation :: Cultivation (n.) The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture..

Rough :: Rough (n.) Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish..

Vulgarity :: Vulgarity (n.) Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.

Vulgar :: Vulgar (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..

Politeness :: Politeness (n.) The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

Country :: Country (a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners..

Barbaic :: Barbaic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement..

Euphuist :: Euphuist (n.) One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction..

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