sutile

English

Etymology

Latin sutilis.

Adjective

sutile (not comparable)

(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 1193162412:
  Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.

References

sutile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

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

Latin

Adjective

sūtile

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of sūtilis

Middle English

Adjective

sutile

Alternative form of sotil

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