'Subtilty' definitions:

Definition of 'Subtilty'

From: GCIDE
  • Subtilty \Sub"til*ty\, n. [Contr. fr. subtility.]
  • 1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. [1913 Webster]
  • Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • To learn a lewd man this subtility. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. [1913 Webster]
  • O full of all subtility and all mischief. --Acts xiii. 10. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety. [1913 Webster]