The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.
Such a subtility is a dear proof of the falshood, as the contrary simplicity of the truth, of any system.
Galen, so skilled in the knowledge of all the springs of the human body, attributes spectres to the extreme subtility of sight and hearing.
Subtility and Grossness and Fruition and Supremacy and Effulgence and Immutability.
By subtility is indicated the incapacity of being apprehended, and by mahattaram is meant infinity.
Similarly, upon leaving the body, the creature lives in space, and cannot be seen in consequence of its extreme subtility as is doubtless the case with fire.
For many parts of nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtility nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of mathematics.
The extraordinary magnetick virtue of the earth is * remarkably demonstrated by the subtility of the following magnetical experiment.
The folly of subtility went so far as to profane the sacred name of God, by disputing if He, being omnipotent, has the power to sin?
When oil froths, it does not let any wind in, by reason of the contiguity and subtility of its parts; and this is also the cause why fire is nourished by it.
And that such theirsubtility might not be perceived, they made him a like paire of eares and nose of wax: wherfore you may see that the poore miser for lucre of a little mony sustained losse of his members.
The supreme soul is said to be a minute atom, on account of the subtility and imperceptibility of its nature; and it is said also to be the base of mountains and all other bodies, owing to the unboundedness of its extent.
The truth of the nice subtility of the divine soul, is hid from eyes of the ignorant; and they are as doubtful about its nature, as men are suspicious of land and water where they are not.
I have now stated the legality of the matter, and you may act as your own subtility of perception shall dictate.
But it has been subsequently discovered that this definition was too narrow to comprehend the multiform shapes which allegory assumes, either in the subtility or the grossness of its nature.
Even those playful turns of words, caught from Italian models, which are usually condemned, conceal some subtility of feeling, or rise in a pregnant thought.
