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
Every plant and shrub will have some part in a subtile and soothing ministry; and then, if ever, it will occur to you that this is a mellow old world after all.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
Electricity in general signifies 'the operations of a very subtile fluid, commonly invisible, but sometimes the object of our sight and other senses.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
