The word "rarified" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is rare, refined, or of high quality. For example: "The rarified atmosphere at the gala was one of the most exclusive events I've ever attended."
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When he left, he knew he wanted a change from the "very rarified but enjoyable world" he had inhabited, which had also made him very wealthy.
Little Wisco, includes the neighborhood haunts Joseph Leonard and Jeffrey's Grocery, the trendy cocktail den Fedora, and the excellent, more rarified Perla.
The atmosphere has been rarified further by escalating numbers of terrorist bombings — a la Iraq, a la Afghanistan.
Dig Deeper concerts also did something more rarified — they acknowledged artists while they were still alive.
Rarified as her background is, Feiffer's nightmare version of herself is essentially an extreme case of entitlement, the kind that Lena Dunham anatomizes, with a kinder touch, on "Girls".
In a way, they were still able to remain separate, or "chosen," if only by becoming musicians, members of a rarified profession.
She'd already reached a lower tier of celebrity before her Grammy, turning up in Vogue, Banana Republic ads and settings as rarified as the White House.
Rarified, air becomes fire; more and more condensed, it becomes progressively wind, cloud, water, earth, and finally stones.
One argues that if anything is condensed, something else is necessarily rarified, otherwise the universe, which contains no vacuum, will shrink.
The "spirits" whose movement Descartes discusses here are the animal spirits of Galenist physiology, reinterpreted in light of Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system and his own mechanist principles: they are simply fine and lively parts of the blood, rarified by the heart and brain, and passing through the brain to the nerves and then to the muscles to produce bodily motions.
