sutile

English

Etymology

From Latin sūtilis.

Adjective

sutile (not comparable)

  1. (formal, rare) Done by stitching.
    • 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, →OCLC:
      these were made up after all ways of art, compactile, sutile, plectile
    • 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:
      Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.

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Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

sūtile

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of sūtilis

Middle English

Adjective

sutile

  1. alternative form of sotil