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Substile vs Subtile - What's the difference?

substile | subtile |

As a noun substile

is .

As an adjective subtile is

(obsolete) subtle.

substile

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • subtile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) subtle
  • * 1819 , , The Works of Francis Bacon , volume 2, page 2:
  • And sometimes this perception, in some kind of bodies, is far more subtile than the sense; so that the sense is but a dull thing in comparison of it: we see a weather-glass will find the least difference of the weather, in heat, or cold, when men find it not.

    Derived terms

    * subtile body