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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• refinement:
    1. I. Polished manners:
      1. 1. hūmānĭtas (good manners; esp. as the result of education): a youth of the greatest excellence and r., summa virtute et h. adolescens, Caes. B. G. 1, 47: a life of the most polished r., vita perpolita humanitate, Cic. Sest. 42, 92: letters seasoned with the salt of r., epistolae humanitatis sparsae sale, id. Att. 1, 13, ad init.: breaches of r., ea quae multum ab h. discrepant, id. Off. 1, 40, 145.
      2. 2. cultus, ūs (culture, civilisation): gorgeous splendour and r. of life, magnifici apparatus vitaeque c., Cic. Off. 1, 8, 25: the r. of social and political life, humanus c. civilisque, id. de Or. 1, 8, 33. Join: c. atque humanitas, Caes. B. G. 1, 1.
      3. 3. urbānĭtas: r., of which boorishness is the opposite, u. cui contraria sit rusticitas, Quint. 6, 3, 17: a language tinged, so to speak, with a certain r., urbanitate quadam quasi colorata oratio, Cic. Brut. 46, 170: an air of r., odor urbanitatis, id. de Or. 3, 40, 161.
      4. 4. ēlĕgantia: r. of life, e. vitae, Tac. A. 14, 19: the master of r. (i. e. leader of "ton"), e. arbiter, id. A. 16, 18: agriculture is incompatible with all higher r., agri cultura ab omni politiore e. abhorret, Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 4. Join: e. et munditia, id. Or. 23, 79.
    2. II. Subtlety:
      1. 1. subtīlĭtas: there is room for this extreme r., est huic minutae subtilitati locus, Cic. Brut. 84, 291: v. subtlety.
      2. 2. argūtiŏla (quibble): I do not think that that r. ought to be admitted, non puto a. istam recipiendam. Gell. 9, 14, extr.: v. quibble. Phr.: to neglect the r.s of (logical) partition and definition, spinas partiendi et definiendi praetermittere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9: an oration weakened by over-r., oratio nimia religione attenuata. id. Brut. 82, 283.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• REFINEMENT
  • Act of refining, by the verbs. Figuratively, politio: expolitio.
  • Refined manners, humanitas: politior humanitas: cultus (vitae).