sutile

English

Etymology

Latin sutilis.

Adjective

sutile (not comparable)

  1. (formal, rare) Done by stitching.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Boswell to this entry?)
    Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sutile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

sūtile

  1. nominative neuter singular of sūtilis
  2. accusative neuter singular of sūtilis
  3. vocative neuter singular of sūtilis

Middle English

Adjective

sutile

  1. Alternative form of sotil
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