Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Done by stitching.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Done by stitching.
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- adjective formal, rare Done by
stitching .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[830] Dr. Johnson, describing her needle-work in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale, vol.i. p. 326, uses the learned word sutile; which Mrs. Thrale has mistaken, and made the phrase injurious by writing 'futile pictures.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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You have robots who can do everything and anything, and they way that they communicate to us on screen is so sutile, so basic, almost just with head knods and complete body language.
Sound Off: Pixar's Wall-E - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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She throws out sutile enuendos to make her supporter think about not voting democrat and then with the other side of the fork tongue of hers she pretends like she is a team player.
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Johnson mentioned the 'sutile pictures' in a letter dated May 16, 1776, describing the dinner at Messrs. Dilly's.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'And there,' he wrote, 'was Mrs. Knowles, the Quaker, that works the sutile [misprinted by Mrs. Piozzi futile] pictures.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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[878] Mrs. Knowles, not satisfied with the fame of her needlework, the 'sutile pictures' mentioned by Johnson, in which she has indeed displayed much dexterity, nay, with the fame of reasoning better than women generally do, as I have fairly shewn her to have done, communicated to me a Dialogue of considerable length, which after many years had elapsed, she wrote down as having passed between Dr. Johnson and herself at this interview.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Johnson mentioned the '_sutile pictures_' in a letter dated May 16, 1776, describing the dinner at Messrs. Dilly's.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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'And there,' he wrote, 'was Mrs. Knowles, the Quaker, that works the sutile
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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'_sutile pictures_' mentioned by Johnson, in which she has indeed displayed much dexterity, nay, with the fame of reasoning better than women generally do, as I have fairly shewn her to have done, communicated to me a Dialogue of considerable length, which after many years had elapsed, she wrote down as having passed between Dr. Johnson and herself at this interview.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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