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English
Etymology
From subtil + -ly.
Adverb
subtilly (comparative more subtilly, superlative most subtilly)
- Obsolete form of subtly.
1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, chapter 24, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, , London: Iohn Day, , →OCLC:[…] one jewel, (as writers make mention,) which was a certain vessel finely and subtilly made of the precious stone onychinus, so radiantly wrought, that in it appeared the lively corn growing, and men's images walking, &c.
1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, , London: Iohn Bill, →OCLC, II. part, page 104:For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.
Middle English
Adverb
subtilly
- Alternative form of sotilly