Definition of Subtilty. Meaning of Subtilty. Synonyms of Subtilty

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Definition of Subtilty

Subtilty
Subtilty Sub"til*ty, n. [Contr. fr. subtility.] 1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. --Locke. 3. Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. --Chaucer. 4. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. --Acts xiii. 10. Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.

Meaning of Subtilty from wikipedia

- King that was to be born, but sought how he might put Him to death by subtilty. He saw that the Magi were neither to be won by flattery, nor awed by threats...
- it is surely much that he made the grammar, formerly a maze of Indian subtilty, as simple and attractive as that of Gr**** or Latin, introduced the study...
- for our reason ...[reason] becomes more humble and submissive unto the subtilties of faith ... I believe there was already a tree whose fruit our unhappy...
- Westchester farmer'). Calling the writing a less than imposed "labyrinth of subtilty", Hamilton once again rebuts Seabury's claim that the Congress in Philadelphia...
- Qualities 1672 – Origin and Virtues of Gems 1673 – Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums 1674 – Two volumes of...
- December 2017. Boyle, Robert (1772) [1673]. Birch, T (ed.). On the Strange Subtilty of Effluviums/Of the Determinate Nature of Effluviums. J. and F. Rivington...
- illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought...
- Socrates Scholasticus, these tore the church to pieces by their captious subtilties. Eudoxius consecrated his friend Eunomius to the see of Cyzicus; but such...
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