Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sharp, as a taste; shrill, as a sound.
- Subtle; ingenious; sagacious; shrewd; keen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Sharp; shrill.
- adjective Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective literary Sharp,
perceptive ,shrewd .
Etymologies
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Examples
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E ` un'altra prova di gran classe, forte di un tributo al blues-jazz come Chicago Now, di un'imitazione della psichedelia e del soul-rock degli anni '60 come I'm Frank, e di canzoni argute come Sing Harpy e And Therein (con il caratteristico ritmo saltellante delle chitarre, qui spinto ad eccessi da manicomio).
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition* 1999
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Celtic poems, like the inhabitants of Gaul in all ages, he is prompt at repartee (_argute loqui_).
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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( "Pharsalia," book i.) [7] "Pleraque Gallia duas res industriosissime persequitur, rem militarem et argute loqui."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Lord Ribblesdale, the argute son of a Scotch mother, was thrown in to make up for any shortcoming in intellectual subtlety that might arise in the case of his younger colleagues; and this completed the two teams.
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Nuit -- and that peculiarly French gift, the gift of exquisite speech, argute loqui, attained in them a perfection which it had never seen before.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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"But then the poor man will lose his horse, most argute Mysinda," said
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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CHEIRANTHUS _mutabilis_ foliis lanceolatis acuminatis argute serratis, caule frutescente, siliquis pedunculatis.
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772
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B. majusculum, stricEe erectum, frondibus pin - natis, pinnis longo - lanceolatis acutis, basi minime dilatatis, argute rigideque serrulatis.
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P. fronde quinquepinnatilida siibglabra mem - branacea, pinnulis acutis argute serratis, ra - chibus ramulorum marginatis.
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Pinnulae tri - vel quadrilineares an - gustae lineari - lanceolatae hasi decurrentes, apice acutae, margine argute serratae, serra - turis baseos ohtusiorihus.
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