Category: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. 10.

Note: in senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written Subtlety.