| 单词 | subtile-headed | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassubtile-headed  C1.   Parasynthetic (in sense  A. 5), as  subtile-headed,  subtile-minded,  subtile-witted, etc. Cf. subtle adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1494    Lydgate's Falle of Princis 		(Pynson)	  iii. sig. miv/1  				Famous in knighthode for his worthynesse Subtyll witted [?a1439 Bodl. 263 Sotil wittid] and coude by eloquence. 1546    J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 44  				Subtyle witted heretykes. 1576    A. Fleming tr.  Cicero in  Panoplie Epist. 357  				Let vs rub off the rustinesse of our tongues,..before wee come in place and presence of..subtile headed Lawyers. a1616    W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 		(1623)	  i. i. 25  				The subtile-witted  French.       View more context for this quotation 1645    T. Allen in  J. Strong Joanereidos sig. A3v  				How hast thou doctrinated His plumbeous cerebrositie, he is so subtill pated? 1709    R. Howlett Royal Pastime Cock-fighting 92  				See how he Storms the Subtile headed Thief. 1857    Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 333  				At the close of time he grew Too subtile-brained and high of heart. 1863    Atlantic Monthly Dec. 770/2  				Horace Binney Wallace, one of the most accomplished and subtile-minded of our writers. 1911    B. P. Nefe in  A. M. Stryker  & W. D. Moody Business Admin. III. 425  				Every calling is filled with bold, keen, subtile-witted men, fertile in expedients and devices. 1930    Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 40 157  				Moral rationalism found a..much more subtile-minded defender. < as lemmas | 
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