Meanings
adjectivesutile (not comparable)
- formalnot comparablerareDone by stitching.
these were made up after all ways of art, compactile, sutile, plectile
c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC1 more example
Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.
1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinsūtilis
- Englishsutile
From Latin sūtilis.
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