Subtile - What does it mean?
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(obsolete) subtle
* 1819 , , The Works of Francis Bacon , volume 2, page 2:
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
