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praeacuere

praeacuere [CL] , to sharpen to a point or make very sharp. b (p. ppl. as adj.) sharpened. c (fig.) mentally acute. lignum quoddam in sudis morem dolando ~unt R. Cold. Cuthb. 17 p. 35; instrumentum exoculatorium bis vel ter ~entes, et usque ad cerebrum illud maliciose trahicientes Mir. Wulfst. II 16.  b per altitudinem et supereminentibus ~tis sudibus transcensum prohibere videbatur V. Chris. Marky. 12; aculeos ~tissimos ferri cuspide exacuerat R. Cold. Cuthb. 20 p. 42; castores ‥ habent ‥ in proxima castris ripa scrobes subterraneas, latibulaque in sicco munitissima. ad que venator explorans dum ~tis sudibus desuper transpenetrare molitur, ictum audiens et violentiam timens, quam citius ad castri munimenta se bestia confert Gir. IK II 3 p. 116; brachium ipsius fabri manu apprehendens ita fortiter strinxit ut unguium ~torum vestigia manifestis apparerent vestigiis Found. Waltham 4.  c talibus ‥ suffultus columnis in inquisitione veritatis ~tus, in fallaciarum animadversione circumspectus et providus V. Edm. Rich P 1790A.

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