acumine

• “Partim quia subtilioris sensus acumine, partim scientia calidiore vigent et experientia propter magnam longitudinem vitae, partim ab Angelis discunt, &c. 1153.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Teutonici: sed in capite portant pileos de filtro acutos in summitate longo acumine.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

• “This tree had the Anglo-Saxon name Pimm, from pen, or pin, a sharp rock, -- "_ab acumine foliorum_," or perhaps as a contraction of _picinus_ -- pitchy.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

• “He is described on his monument as being "facundia amabilis, acumine terribilis, eruditione auctissimus.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See

• “In my Respondency of 1822, November 6, the compliment was, “Quaestiones tuas summo ingenio et acumine defendisti, et in rebus mathematicis scientiam plane mirabilem ostendisti.””

  Autobiography

• “Sicut Ecclesia canit: 'Lapsus Adae vi pessima humana tota massa, natura et ipsa essentia corrupta, luce cassa,' [47] etc. Hoc quantum sit malum, verbis revera est inexplicabile, neque humanae rationis acumine indagari, sed duntaxat per verbum Dei revelatum agnosci potest.”

  The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.

• “Antiqua FORDORUM gente oriunda; quam domi sedulam, foris paucis notam; nulli molestam, mentis acumine et judicii subtilitate praecellentem; aliis multum, sibi parum indulgentem: aeternitati semper attentam, omne fere virtutis nomen commendavit.”

  Life Of Johnson

• “Varietas S. maculati, sepalorum acumine paulo breviore.”

  Expedition into Central Australia

• “Concionibus novo quodam et plane suo, Sed illustri, sed admirabili dicendi genere excellens; Ut harum rerum peritis dubitandi sit locus, Utrum ingenii acumine an argumentorum vi, Utrum doctrinae ubertate, an splendore verborum et pondere praestaret: Hisce certe omnibus simul instructus adjumentisAnimos audientium non tenuit tantum, sed percelluit, iuflammavit.”

  Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.

• “S.d exquisitæ quædam et reconditæ, quas non minore S.udio quam acumine ad illustrandam S. S.veritatem adhibuit:”

  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.

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