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subtilty

N ความละเอียดอ่อน บอบบาง สิ่ง ที่ เข้าใจยาก subtlety subtility

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUBTILTY

n.[L. subtilitas.] 1. Thinness; fineness; exility; in a physical sense; as the subtilty of air or light; the subtilty of sounds.
2. Refinement; extreme acuteness.
Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtilty in nice divisions.
3. Slyness in design; cunning; artifice; usually but less properly written subtlety.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SUBTILTY

Sub "til *ty, n. Etym: [Contr. fr. subtility. ]

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. 1 .

Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.