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subtilty (ˈsʌ(b)tɪltɪ) Forms: 4 subtilete, 4–6 subtilte(e, 5–6 -tylte(e, 5–7 -tialtie, -tiltye, 8 -tilety, 5– subtilty. [Alteration of ME. sutilte, subtlety after subtile. Cf. subtility. Now used as an occas. variant of subtlety in moral and intellectual senses.] † 1. Acuteness, penetration, perspic...
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Walter Rosewell
Walter Rosewell responded with his own publication The serpents subtilty discovered. The serpents subtilty discovered, or a true relation of what passed in the cathedrall church of Rochester, between divers ministers and Richard Coppin
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imbecilitate
imbecilitate, v. (ɪmbɪˈsɪlɪteɪt) [f. imbecility, after debilitate, facilitate, etc.: see -ate3 7. In 17th c. imbecill-: see note to imbecile a.] trans. To render imbecile, weak, or feeble; to enfeeble.1653 A. Wilson Jas. I, 58 The man being skilful in natural Magick, did use all the Artifice his sub...
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George Bedborough
Bedborough published three books of aphorisms, Narcotics and a Few Stimulants, Vacant Chaff Well Meant for Grain and Subtilty to the Simple and one book City Press, 1915)
The Dogs of War, and Other Stories (Letchworth: Garden City Press, 1915)
Vulgar Fractions (Letchworth: Garden City Press, 1915)
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unvirtuate
† unˈvirtuate, v. Obs.—1 [un-2 6 c.] trans. To render ineffective.1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §125 Neither continuance of time, nor subtilty of ayre could checke or vn-vertuate the strength [of the poison].
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Matthew 2:7
the Priests, and the passage from the Prophets, he yet turned not to worship the King that was to be born, but sought how he might put Him to death by subtilty
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enravishing
† enˈravishing, ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ing2.] That enravishes; enrapturing, delightful.1681–6 J. Scott Chr. Life V. 30 The most sublime and enravishing objects. 1685 H. More Illustration 376 Such enravishing news. a 1714 Abp. Sharp Serm. Wks. (1829) I. 55 These [the pleasures of religion] are of so ex...
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The Uncommon Reader
Johnson: "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty
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panurgy
† ˈpanurgy Obs. rare—0. [ad. Gr. πανουργία knavery, f. πανοῦργ-ος: see prec.] (See quot.)1656 Blount Glossogr., Panurgy,..craftiness, subtilty, deceit; guile; a medling in all matters. (So in Phillips, Bailey, etc. Not in Johnson.)
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Samuel Ogden (priest)
James Boswell admired their "subtilty of reasoning", and commended them to Samuel Johnson.
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stabado
† staˈbado Obs. rare—1. In pl. stabadoes. [f. stab v. + -ado.] A stab.1607 T. Walkington Optic Glass 47 This is a true wit..hauing a priuy coate of pollicy and subtilty to shend it from all the intended stabadoes of any acute obiectionist.
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The Farmer Refuted
Calling the writing a less than imposed "labyrinth of subtilty," Hamilton once again rebuts Seabury's claim that the Congress in Philadelphia deserved
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indirectness
indirectness (ˌɪndɪˈrɛktnɪs, -daɪˈrɛkt-) [f. indirect a. + -ness.] The quality of being indirect; want of directness or straightforwardness.1628 Wither Brit. Rememb. vii. 1581 Is thy Sov'raynes path Unequall? or is't rather thine which hath Such indirectnesse? 1654 W. Mountague Devout Ess. ii. vii. ...
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abstractness
abstractness (ˈæbstræktnɪs) [f. abstract a. + -ness.] The quality of being abstract, or of being withdrawn and separate from the actual, the concrete, or the common; subtilty.1690 Locke Hum. Underst. (T.) Truths which established prejudice, or the abstractness of the ideas themselves, might render d...
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captation
captation (kæpˈteɪʃən) [a. L. captātiōn-em, n. of action f. captā-re (see prec.); cf. F. captation.] A catching at, an endeavour to get, esp. by address or art; the making of ad captandum appeals.1523 Skelton Garl. Laurel 815 With proper captacyouns of benevolence. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Ca...
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