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diplomatic
English
Alternative forms
- diplomatical (dated)
- diplomatick (obsolete)
Etymology
From French diplomatique, equal to diplomat +? -ic.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?pl??mæt?k/
Adjective
diplomatic (comparative more diplomatic, superlative most diplomatic)
- Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
- She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.
- Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
- Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
- Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
- describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
- Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG [= Septuagint or Old Greek] may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture). The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.
- Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
diplomatic (uncountable)
- The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
- 1983, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)
- In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.
- 1983, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)
Ladin
Adjective
diplomatic m pl
- plural of diplomatich
Occitan
Adjective
diplomatic m (feminine singular diplomatica, masculine plural diplomatics, feminine plural diplomaticas)
- diplomatic
Related terms
- diplomacia
- diplomata
Romanian
Etymology
From French diplomatique, from Latin diplomaticus.
Adjective
diplomatic m or n (feminine singular diplomatic?, masculine plural diplomatici, feminine and neuter plural diplomatice)
- diplomatic
Declension
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refined
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?fa?nd/
Verb
refined
- simple past tense and past participle of refine
- The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
Adjective
refined (comparative more refined, superlative most refined)
- Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:
- (of people, obsolete) Sagacious, sometimes (derogatory) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
- (of thought) Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
- The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
- (of processes) Developed, improved.
- The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
- Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:
- (of language) Elevated and polished.
- In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
- (of people) Elegant, sometimes (derogatory) affected, prissy, or bloodless.
- Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
- 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, p. 31:
- "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
- (of language) Elevated and polished.
- Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:
- (of products) Highly-processed and pure.
- Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
- (of metal) Free of dross or alloy.
- The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver.
- (of people, obsolete) Morally pure.
- (of products) Highly-processed and pure.
- (of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
Translations
Noun
refined (plural refineds)
- (finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.
- We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.
Anagrams
- definer, e-friend, enfired, fendier
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