adept

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Haddo paid no heed But if the adept is active, pliant, and strong, the whole world will be at his command.

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  1. adjective Very skilled. See Synonyms at proficient.
  2. noun A highly skilled person; an expert: "The adepts in Washington mean to give rather than to take” (Lewis H. Lapham).

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  • You are an adept, and you traffic with denizens of the deep, through the force of your Will. —  FSF, July 2006
  • But while Yuri became an adept, a true professional, Viktor is still a rank amateur...though perhaps I underestimate him. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • It is what writers mean when they say 'this is what good writing is all about The writing is extraordinarily adept, a level of craft that comes to writers only after years of trial and error. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • To follow this teaching requires the help of a Taoist adept, and it would be a mistake in my view to believe one could learn such things from a book, and an even bigger mistake to dabble' in such things out of curiosity. —  2. The Theory of Chi Kung
  • Was she an adept or the daughter of an adept, maybe? —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
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proficient ·  skilled ·  talented ·  competent ·  knowledgeable ·  apt ·  responsive ·  agile ·  helpful ·  dexterous ·  astute ·  versatile

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adept:   adepts
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin adeptus, past participle of adipīscī, to attain : ad-, ad- + apīscī, to grasp.

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  1. from Latin adeptus, having attained, Middle Latin adeptus, n., one who attained knowledge or proficiency, properly past participle of adipisci, arrive at, reach, attain, obtain, from ad, to, + ap-isci, reach, attain, = Greek ἅπ-τειν, touch, seize, = Sanskrit √ āp, attain, obtain: see apt.
 

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