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sagaciously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sagacious \Sa*ga"cious\, a. [L. sagax, sagacis, akin to sagire to perceive quickly or keenly, and probably to E. seek. See Seek, and cf. Presage.]
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Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
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Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious above our apprehension.
--Dr. H. More.Only sagacious heads light on these observations, and reduce them into general propositions.
--Locke.Syn: See Shrewd. [1913 Webster] -- Sa*ga"cious*ly, adv. -- Sa*ga"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a sagacious manner, in a way that is clever, shrewd, observant, keen of intellect or discernment, cunning or with ability and aptitude; sagely.
WordNet
Usage examples of "sagaciously".
But the world is a piggy-wiggy world for the wealthy fellow who fills a trough for it, and that he has always very sagaciously done.
It was not at all that same old man, who but a moment ago spoke so sagaciously about the devil.
The wide world he believed, had never, hitherto, given birth to a plan so sagaciously conceived, so rationally combined, so infallibly secure: yet it was fallen, crushed, rejected!
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.
She granted him one waltz, and he talked of her father and his whimsical vagrancies and feeling he had a positive liking for Van Diemen, and he sagaciously said so.