单词 | over-subtle |
释义 | ˈover-ˈsubtle, a. [over- 28.] Too subtle, excessively subtle. So ˈover-ˈsubtlety.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vii. 171 He weneth well hymselfe to be over subtyll. 1728T. Cook Hesiod, Wks. & Days i. 77 Son of Iapetus, o'er subtle, go, And glory in thy artful Theft below. 1833J. H. Newman Arians iv. ii. (1876) 297 Resisting..the orthodox doctrine from over-subtlety, timidity, pride, restlessness, or other weakness of mind. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 205 If they have been sometimes over-subtile, they..had the merit of first looking at his works as wholes. |

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