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Word Meanings - SUBTILTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

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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. 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.

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  • FINESSE
    The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • POLISHED
    Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
  • POLISHABLE
    Capable of being polished.
  • REFINEMENT
    1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
  • POLISHEDNESS
    The quality of being polished.
  • SUBTILTY
    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;
  • FILTRATION
    The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
  • POLISH
    Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
  • SUBLIMATION
    The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed. 2. The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification. 3. That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process. Religion is the perfection,
  • CIVILIZATION
    Rendering a criminal process civil. (more info) 1. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement. Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have,
  • ELEGANCE; ELEGANCY
    1. The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style,
  • POLISHER
    One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison.
  • POLISHING
    a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. A kind of hone
  • CLARIFICATION
    1. The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine. 2. The act of freeing from obscurities. The clarification of men's ideas. Whewell.
  • SOPHISTRY
    1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense
  • CULTIVATION
    1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state
  • PURIFICATION
    1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals. 2. The act or operation of cleansing
  • REPOLISH
    To polish again.
  • UNCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
  • DEPOLISHING
    The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
  • INCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.
  • DEPOLISH
    To remove the polish or glaze from.
  • OVERPOLISH
    To polish too much.
  • INFILTRATION
    1. The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body. 2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling
  • EXPOLISH
    To polish thoroughly. Heywood.
  • UNPOLISH
    To deprive of polish; to make impolite.

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