sutile
English
Etymology
Latin sutilis.
Adjective
sutile (not comparable)
- (formal, rare) Done by stitching.
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts
- these were made up after all ways of art, compactile, sutile, plectile
- 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], OCLC 1193162412:
- Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts
References
- sutile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Iseult, Lieuts., Suliet, lustie, tuiles, utiles
Latin
Adjective
sūtile
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of sūtilis
Middle English
Adjective
sutile
- Alternative form of sotil