perceant

English

Alternative forms

• persant

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French perçant, from percer (“to pierce”).

Adjective

perceant (comparative more perceant, superlative most perceant)

1. (now rare, archaic) Piercing, sharp. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.10:

     wondrous quick and persant was his spright, / As Eagles eye, that can behold the Sunne [...].

Anagrams

• preenact