peracute

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English

Etymology

Latin peracutus.

Adjective

peracute (comparative more peracute, superlative most peracute)

  1. Very sharp; very violent.
    • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
      malign continual peracute Feavers, do after moſt dangerous and doubtful attaques ſuddenly remit into a ſenſible abatement of the ardent heat

References

“peracute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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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