sutile

English

Etymology

Latin sutilis.

Adjective

sutile (not comparable)

1. (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:

     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

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

Latin

Adjective

sūtile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of sūtilis

Middle English

Adjective

sutile

1. Alternative form of sotil