English Synonymes : With Copious Illustrations And Explanations, Drawn From the Best Writers
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Acuteness is requisite in speculative and abstruse discussions; keenness in penetrating characters and springs of action ; shrewdness in eliciting remarks and new ideas. The acute man detects erronrs, and the keen man falsehoods. The shrewd man exposes follies. Argumefits may be acute^ reproaches keen^ and replies or retorts shrewd. A polemick, or a lawyer, must be acutef u satirist keen^ And a wit shrewd. SHARP, ACUTE, KEEN. The general properly expressed by these epitliels is that of fharpnes...s or an ability to cut. The term sharp, from the German scharf and scheren to cut, is generick and indefinite: the two others aie modes oi sharpness differing in the circumstance or the de- gree: \\\e acute {v. Acute) is not only more tiian sAarp in the comition sense, but signifies also sharp pointed ; a knife may be sharp ; but a needle is properly acute. Things are sharp that have eilher a long or a pointed edge : but the keen is a|iplicable only to the long edge ; and that in the highest degjee of sAa7777tes5; a common knife may be sharp; but a razor or a lancet are pro- perly said to be keen.
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