n.
[Contr. fr. subtility.]
1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.
2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.
Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions.Locke.
3. Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.]
To learn a lewd man this subtility.Chaucer.
4. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.
O full of all subtility and all mischief.Acts xiii. 10.
Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.
