versute

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin versūtus, from vertö, versum (to turn).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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versute (comparative more versute, superlative most versute)

  1. crafty; wily; artful
    • 1851, John James Blunt, Undesigned coincidences in the writings both of the Old and New Testament, page 12:
      a more versute and specious forgery

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Latin

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Adjective

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versūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of versūtus

References

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  • versute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • versute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • versute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.