sutile

English

Etymology

Latin sutilis.

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.

References

• “sutile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lieuts, Iseult, Šilutė, utiles, tuiles, lustie, Lieuts., Suliet

Latin

Adjective

sūtile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of sūtilis

Middle English

Adjective

sutile

1. Alternative form of sotil