peracute

English

Etymology

Latin peracutus.

Adjective

peracute (comparative more peracute, superlative most peracute)

  1. Very sharp; very violent.
    a peracute fever
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for peracute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

peracūte

  1. 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
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