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Cacuminous vs Acuminous - What's the difference?

cacuminous | acuminous |

As adjectives the difference between cacuminous and acuminous

is that cacuminous is (rare) having a pyramidal top while acuminous is characterized by acumen; keen.

cacuminous

English

Adjective

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  • (rare) Having a pyramidal top.
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  • * 1597 : ’s 1660 Le Prince d’Amour'', and reprinted on page 100 of Louise Brown Osborn’s 1937 ''The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns, 1566–1638 (published by the Yale University Press)
    • [A]s the snow advanced vpon y? poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]
  • * 1834 : James Atkinson, Medical Bibliography , s.v. “Acerbi Joseph”, page 165
    • Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;
  • * 1871 : Mortimer Collins, Inn Street Meetings , page 10
    • Hours Of youth…and love ?neath trees cacuminous .
  • * ante'' 1879 : Mortimer Collins, ''Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand , volume 1, page 248
    • Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous .

    Related terms

    * cacuminal * cacuminate * cacumination

    References

    * “ cacuminous, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    acuminous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by acumen; keen.