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sagacious
adjective
having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: Socrates, that sagacious Greek philosopher, believed that the easiest way to learn was by asking questions.
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Sagacious derives straightforwardly from the Latin adjective 蝉补驳腻虫 (stem 蝉补驳腻肠-) 鈥渉aving keen (mental) perception or senses (especially of smell)鈥� and is a derivative of the verb 蝉补驳墨谤别 鈥渢o perceive keenly.鈥� The Latin forms come from a Proto-Indo-European root 蝉腻驳-, 鈥渢o trace, track down, investigate,鈥� from which Greek derives 丑脓驳别卯蝉迟丑补颈 (dialect 丑腻驳别卯蝉迟丑补颈) 鈥渢o go before, guide,鈥� and English derives 鈥渟eek.鈥� Sagacious entered English in the early 17th century.
how is sagacious used?
This also preserves the long-standing archetype of the infallible, unflappable and sagacious physician.
It was the service of a trained and聽sagacious mind, a cool and sure judgment.
mizzle
verb (used with or without object)
to rain in fine drops; drizzle; mist.
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The word mizzle, both noun and verb, is dialectal and regional in the U.S. The verb comes from Middle English misellen (missill) 鈥渢o drizzle,鈥� and is related to Middle Dutch misel 鈥渇og, dew鈥� and Dutch dialect miezelen 鈥渢o rain gently.鈥� The noun sense entered English in the late 15th century.
how is mizzle used?
It had started to mizzle again as a matter of course; that sunshine had been far too fragile; now it had relapsed into a suffused presence behind the ceiling of steady grey.
By the time I left the cathedral it was already dark,聽mizzling, the kind of rain that looks like mist but drenches you in minutes.
definiendum
noun
something that is or is to be defined, especially the term at the head of a dictionary entry.
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Definiendum comes straight from Latin 诲脓蹿墨苍颈别苍诲耻尘 鈥渢o be defined.鈥� In Latin grammar, 诲脓蹿墨苍颈别苍诲耻尘 is a gerundive, a kind of verbal adjective showing, among other things, obligation or necessity. 顿脓蹿墨苍颈别苍诲耻尘 derives from the verb 诲脓蹿墨苍墨谤别 鈥渢o fix the limits of, bound, define,鈥� a compound of the preposition and intensive prefix 诲脓, 诲脓– and the simple verb 蹿墨苍墨谤别 鈥渢o mark out or form the boundaries of,鈥� a derivative of the noun 蹿墨苍颈蝉 鈥渂oundary (of a territory).鈥� Definiendum is a technical term used in lexicography and logic. A similar gerundive, demonstrandum 鈥渢o be demonstrated,鈥� appears in Q.E.D., an abbreviation of quod erat 诲脓monstrandum, 鈥渨hat was to be demonstrated,鈥� used at the end of a proof in geometry. Definiendum entered English in the second half of the 19th century.
how is definiendum used?
Discussions of definition distinguish between the definiendum (the word or phrase that is to be defined) and the definiens (the word of phrase that is used to define it).
Don’t make the definiens technical or subtle if the definiendum is not technical or subtle.