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English
Etymology
From subtle + -ly.
Adverb
subtely (comparative more subtely, superlative most subtely)
- Obsolete spelling of subtly.
1533, Erasmus of Roterdame, “The Thyrde Instruction”, in anonymous translator, A Playne and Godly Exposytion or Declaration of the Commune Crede (which in the Latin Tonge is Called Symbolum Apostolorum): And of the .x. Commaundementes of Goddes Law. , London: Robert Redman, , →OCLC, folio 66, verso:Nexte cometh Arrius by ſoo muche the more wretched and madde in opynyon, by howe muche he dothe more ſubtely and craftily geue unto Chriſt the body of a man, and taketh from hym the ſowle of a man, [...]
- 1560, The newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ, Geneva (section: "The Actes of the holie Apostles written by Luke the Euangeliste", "chap. vii"):
- 19 The same dealt subtely with our kinred, and euil intreated our fathers, & made them to cast out their yong children, that they shulde not remaine aliue.
- 1793, Pleas of the Crown in Matters Criminal and Civil: Containing a Large Collection of Modern Precedents The Whole collected By the Late Sir John Tremaine Digisted and Revised By the Late Mr. John Rice And Translated into English, by Thomas Vickers , Dublin (section: "The King against Nevill. Hilary, the 30th & 31st Charles II. 2. By Libels."):
- was indicted for drivers high treasons, in falsely, maliciously, subtely and traiterously purposing,
Middle English
Adverb
subtely
- Alternative form of subtilly
- 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, Frederick J. Furnivall (editor), The Lansdowne MS (No. 851) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, page 530 (section: "The second nun's tale. Lansdowne MS. "):