ingenious | ndins | a. LME. [(Fr. ingenieux f.) L ingeniosus, f. INGENIUM: see -OUS.] I 1 Orig., possessing high mental ability, talented, intelligent, discerning. Now spec. clever at making, inventing, or contriving things, esp. of a curious or unexpected nature. LME. 2 Exemplifying high mental ability, showing intelligence. Now spec. cleverly contrived or made. L15.
1 T. BROWN Winemakes the dull ingenious. T. GENT Travels of Cyrusworthy the Perusal of every ingenious Person. J. BARZUN To be ingenious about devising activities is the mark of the 'imaginative' teacher. 2 T. HEARNE 'Twas a good ingenious Sermon, about Praise. H. JACOBSON He was a great advocate for electricity and ingenious electrical gadgets.
II Used by confusion for INGENUOUS or L ingenuus. 3 Having a noble disposition; spec. honourably candid or straightforward. L16-L18. 4 Well-born. Of education etc.: befitting a well-born person. L16-L18.ingeniously adv. LME. ingeniousness n. M16.
art | t | n.1 ME. [(O)Fr. f. L art-, ars, f. a base meaning 'put together, join, fit'.] I Skill. (As a non-count n.) 1 Skill as the result of knowledge and practice. ME. b spec. Technical or professional skill. ME-L17. c Human skill, as opp. to nature. LME. 2 The learning of the schools; scholarship. Now arch. & Hist. ME. 3 The application of skill according to aesthetic principles, esp. in the production of visible works of imagination, imitation, or design (painting, sculpture, architecture, etc.); skilful execution of workmanship as an object in itself; the cultivation of the production of aesthetic objects in its principles, practice, and results. E17.
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