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Acute
(a.)
Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight
impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a
man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
Acute
(a.)
High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed
to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
Acute
(a.)
Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and
coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute
disease.
Acute
(v. t.)
To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising
inflection too much.
Acute-angled
(a.)
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a
triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
Acutely
(adv.)
In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice
discrimination.
Acuteness
(n.)
The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as,
the acuteness of an angle.
Acuteness
(n.)
The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen;
keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the
understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or
slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice
distinctions.
Acuteness
(n.)
Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
Acuteness
(n.)
Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a
crisis.
Acutifoliate
(a.)
Having sharp-pointed leaves.
Acutilobate
(a.)
Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious
attempts to catch or win popular favor.
A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to
the principles, interests, or passions of a man.
Without limit; endlessly.
Meanwhile; temporary.
At one's pleasure; as one wishes.
A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods,
at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their
invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or
number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.
As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-,
ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to
which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before
d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent,
accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac-
before qu, as in acquiesce.
Adact
(v. t.)
To compel; to drive.