acutedadj.

1737 E. Manwaring Stichol. xiv. 55 The Error of the Moderns in producing acuted Syllables, when these Syllables are naturally short.

1787 C. Davy Lett. to Young Gentleman I. xii. 109 That syllable of a word which is pronounced with a higher elevation of the voice, is said to be the acuted or sharpened syllable.

1824 Typographia iii. 35 Among the acuted vowels, the é is the most considerable with the French.

1834 C. F. Partington National Hist. & Views of London II. 117 At the angles of the design are duplicated buttresses ending in a square shaft capped with an acuted pedimental finish to each face.

1900 Med. Rec. 14 July 56/2 Acuted intracranial abscesses by the severity of their symptoms mask a primary osteomyelitis of the skull.

1912 J. Wright Compar. Gram. Greek Lang. i. 12 The acuted dimoric short diphthongs of final syllables had each lost a mora in prim. Greek before the trisyllabic law came into operation.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Mar. f3 Those ‘little pitchers’..have acuted and sensitive ears, ones that are able to interpret events and passages.

1996 Cancer Causes & Control 7 277/1 Clinically atypical..melanocytic nevi were considered those with..irregular borders, acuted margins to surrounding skin.

1997 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 41 528 The accentuation pattern presupposed by de Saussure's law (i.e., shift of stress from a circumflex or short syllable to a final acuted syllable).