Meanings (ES + gloss)
acumen • cacumen • perspicacia • pesquis
Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination; acuity of mind.
"I am going to ask you a question that does not require much legal acumen to answer," said Lord Meersbrook to his attorney, when he called the next day in Lincoln's Inn;...
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his cordur…
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