Subtile vs Oversubtile - What's the difference?
subtile | oversubtile |
(obsolete) subtle
* 1819 , , The Works of Francis Bacon , volume 2, page 2:
As adjectives the difference between subtile and oversubtile
is that subtile is (obsolete) subtle while oversubtile is excessively subtile.subtile
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.