subtile
Archaic spelling of subtle.
Adjective
- Archaic spelling of subtle.
- For wisedome which is the worker of all things, taught mee: for in her is an vnderstanding spirit holy, one onely, manifold, subtile, liuely, cleare, vndefiled, plaine, not subiect to hurt, louing the thing that is...
- And sometimes this perception, in some kind of bodies, is far more subtile than the sense; so that the sense is but a dull thing in comparison of it: we see a weather-glass will find the least difference of the weather,...
- I burst into mirth at this—I liked him even better when he was subtile than when he was simple. - 1888, Henry James, chapter 2, in The Solution:
Origin
From Latin subtilis (“fine, thin, slender, delicate”).
Forms
Derived
oversubtile subtile body subtilely subtileness subtility supersubtile