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subtilly (comparative more subtilly, superlative most subtilly)

1. Obsolete form of subtly.
   • 1563 March 30​, John Foxe, chapter 24, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], OCLC 64451939:

     […] one jewel, (as writers make mention,) which was a certain vessel finely and subtilly made of the precious stone onychinus, so radiantly wrought, that in it appeared the lively corn growing, and men's images walking, &c.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 105:25:

     He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, OCLC 17479433, II. part, page 104:

     For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.