What does "subtilty" mean?
Subtilty: Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke.
Additional senses
- 2.Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer.
- 3.Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii.
- 4.Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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