subtile

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Recent scientific discoveries have conferred upon man new powers of investigation, whereby nature has been made to reveal secrets so subtile that they never had been dreamt of before in philosophy.

From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2013

At Paris the Universe is seen, compos’d of Vortices of subtile Matter; but nothing like it is seen in London.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Nor wanting was the choral song, Swelling in silvery chimes of sweetness; To sound of which this subtile throng Advanced in playful grace and fleetness.

From Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland by Crocker, T. Crofton

We find doctors in the first ages speaking to us of God and the soul as material substances, more subtile indeed than ordinary bodies.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

Every one is the symbol of wisdom, and hath, in its malic acid, a subtile essence, which carries health to the morbid liver.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey