01 n. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.
-
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.