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English
Etymology
Latin sutilis.
Adjective
sutile (not comparable)
- (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.
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Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
sūtile
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of sūtilis
Middle English
Adjective
sutile
- Alternative form of sotil