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Acute
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
(2):
(a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; - opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
(3):
(a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; - opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
(4):
(a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; - opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
(5):
(v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
(6):
(a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; - opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Acute'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/acute.html. 1828.
