acuminousadj.

1619 E. M. Bolton in tr. Florus Rom. Hist. To Rdr. sig. A6 Whose writings are altogether as luminous as acuminous.

1654 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence 201 Let me now answer your facetious letter (of 10 August) with a joculatory line or two;..first by way of allauding your acuminous Exordium.

1810 N. Highmore Jus Eccl. Anglic. 149 The same acuminous display of talent and of science.

1882 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 May 13/3 If the acuminous perception of the gentleman has probed further into the mysterious realm of fact.

1929 Manitoba Free Press 21 Sept. 33/6 A business man who always spoke with acuminous practicality, and cared nothing for the outward beauty of articulation.

1947 French Rev. 21 17 Mockel is without doubt the most lucid and acuminous theorician of the lyric attitude of his contemporaries.

2001 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 4 Jan. 12 They are exceeding polite, respectful, sober and acuminous. Generally, we have nothing in common.

1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Acuminous, sharp edged or pointed: subtile in wit, of a penetrating judgment.]

1813 D. W. Paynter Godfrey Ranger III. iv. 78 A small canal, channel, or vessel, situated at the third joint of the [dog's] tail; from whence they rush..to the acuminous tip.

1838 C. G. F. Gore Rose Fanciers' Man. 109 Floral leaves, oval-lanceolated, acuminous,..finely dentated.

1902 W. L. Baum Skin & Venereal Dis. ii. 37 The elementary lesion is a little acuminous rosy papule, with a white summit, which dries rapidly.

1959 Jrnl. Paleontol. 33 459/2 The secondaries are furcate near the margin, and connect in angular or acuminous loops.

2007 V. Bojňanský & A. Fargašová Atlas Seeds & Fruits 17/2 Seeds obovoid to ellipsoid or obcordate,..apex acuminous.