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Webster 1913 Edition
Subtilty
Sub′til-ty
,Noun.
[Contr. fr.
subtility
.] 1.
The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness;
as, the
. subtility
of air or light2.
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.
☞ In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.
Webster 1828 Edition
Subtilty
SUB'TILTY
,Noun.
1.
Thinness; fineness; exility; in a physical sense; as the subtilty of air or light; the subtilty of sounds.2.
Refinement; extreme acuteness. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtilty in nice divisions.
3.
Slyness in design; cunning; artifice; usually but less properly written subtlety.