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
He will come very near to us in his books, and by that subtile law of communion which, through the brightest and noblest utterances, makes all the better world akin.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
Still softly we proceeded to another door within, which I had not discovered, and he touched that too with an air of subtile and still authority.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
Its subtile veins, its vivid sheen, Seem fragment of a god's array.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
