Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Skilled; expert; shrewd.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.
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- adjective Characterized by
cunning orshrewdness ;crafty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And he said nothing when still a third nurse came his way; a woman who was callid, complaisant, and nauseatingly nymphomaniac.
This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955
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Frere Jerom, callid a well lernid man, taken by the Lorde Maxvell upon commandment from the Bishopis, and lyith in sore yerons, like to suffre for the Inglish menes opynyons, as thai saie, anenpst the lawis of Gode.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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¶ Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the book callid: and in the fine copy belonging to the Library of Lee Priory, it stands
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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¶ Whiche is callid p {ro} perly {the} tyme of pylgremage
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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Then he committed all to the resistless and devouring might of the fire; he groaned aloud and callid on his dead comrade by name.
The Iliad of Homer 1898
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In 1545, Dr. Browne writes: "Here reigneth insatiable ambition; here reigneth continually coigne and livery, and callid extortion."
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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A Sotelte, callid a pellican on hire nest with briddis and an ymage of Seint Katerine with a whele in hire hande disputyng with the Hethen clerks, having this Reason in hir hande, _Madame la Roigne_; the Pellican answeryng _Cest enseigne_; the briddes answeryng _Est du roy pur tenir joie.
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And thou seint George, that callid art hir knyght,
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Than sone after was callid a set a parliament, wherynne alle the comoens were aggreed, and rightfully electe hym as heire apparent of England, nought to procede in any other matiers till that were graunted by the lordes, whereto the kyng and lordes wold not consent nor graunte, but anon brake up the parliamente.
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And in this yere the kyng of Scotts was slayne in Scotland, of a knyght of the same land callid Sir Robert
fbharjo commented on the word callid
early caller-id
September 7, 2010
qms commented on the word callid
He feigned to be feeble and pallid
So illness might seem to be valid.
He languished with skill,
As clever boys will.
Though lazy the young man was callid.
May 13, 2015