rare. [f. SUBTILIZE: see -IST.] = SUBTLIST.
1667. Waterhouse, Narr. Fire in London, 49. The many forraign minded and addicted subtilists amongst us.
1829. Carlyle, in For. Rev. & Cont. Misc., IV. 126. The true Scholastic is a mystical Subtilist [1840 Misc. II. 237 Subtlist].
