Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wit; ingenuity; genius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.
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- noun obsolete
natural gift ortalent ;ability ;wit ;ingenuity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Plants, &c. Moreover, I may properly quæry, which of the wisest Philosophers is so Sage, as to be able to comprehend with the acuteness of his own most dextrous ingeny, with what Obumbracle the Imaginative
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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In after years it was said of Sarah that she was 'not only beautiful and lovely to a high degree, but was wonderfully happy in ingeny and memory.'
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But now every Man will marvel!, if you ihould commit fuch a grofi Error in your perfect age, thinking that your pregnant ingeny, excellent memory, and hurtful experience, may compel yoii to exercife the OF
The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: Containing an Impartial ... 1683
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