peracute
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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
References
[edit]“peracute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]peracūte
References
[edit]- “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.