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

The subtile philosophy of the Greeks was now brought into contact with the sublime but corrupted theology of the Persians, and the mysticism of India secretly mingled itself with the mass of knowledge.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas

For Eutychius,149 bishop of that city, taught, that our body, in the glory of resurrection, would be impalpable, and more subtile than wind and air.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

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