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Webster 1913 Edition
Versute
Ver-sute′
,Adj.
[L.
versutus
, fr. vertere
, versum
, to turn.] Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
[R.]
Definition 2024
versute
versute
English
Adjective
versute (comparative more versute, superlative most versute)
- 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
- 1851, John James Blunt, Undesigned coincidences in the writings both of the Old and New Testament (page 12)
Latin
Adjective
versūte
- vocative masculine singular of versūtus
References
- 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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “versute”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.