Adept: alternatives and connections

Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by…

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Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by…

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Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice;…

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The quality of being adept; skill.

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The quality of being adept; skill.

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A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice;…

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A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit,…

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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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of Practice

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One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a profic…

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An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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See Skilful.

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Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.

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One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

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To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

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A wise man; a sage.

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