peracute
English
Etymology
Latin peracutus.
Adjective
peracute (comparative more peracute, superlative most peracute)
- Very sharp; very violent.
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- malign continual peracute Feavers, do after moſt dangerous and doubtful attaques ſuddenly remit into a ſenſible abatement of the ardent heat
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References
peracute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- preacute
Latin
Adjective
peracūte
- vocative masculine singular of peracūtus
References
- “peracute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “peracute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- peracute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette