solert

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English

Etymology

From Latin solers

Adjective

solert (comparative more solert, superlative most solert)

  1. (obsolete) skillful; clever; crafty
    • (Can we date this quote?), Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
      And therefore Aristotle justly reprehended Anaxagoras for that absurd aphorism of his, that man was therefore the wisest (or most solert) of all animals, because he chanced to have hands.

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