| 单词 | subtile-minded |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubtile-minded 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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