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

One seeks to accommodate one's self to her doctrine through subtile distinctions.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

The question at issue here is one of those profound and subtile ones which cannot be approached by argument, but can be decided only by a seeing.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.

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'