Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sagaciously"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sagacious \Sa*ga"cious\, a. [L. sagax, sagacis, akin to sagire
to perceive quickly or keenly, and probably to E. seek. See
{Seek}, and cf. {Presage}.]
1. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in
following a trail.

Sagacious of his quarry from so far. --Milton.

2. Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen
penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious;
knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious
man; a sagacious remark.

Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious
above our apprehension. --Dr. H. More.

Only sagacious heads light on these observations,
and reduce them into general propositions. --Locke.

Syn: See {Shrewd}. -- {Sa*ga"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Sa*ga"cious*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

sagaciously
adv : in a shrewd manner; "he invested his fortune astutely" [syn:
{astutely}, {shrewdly}, {sapiently}]


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