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adjective

Ingenious adj.

Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic. "A man... very wise and ingenious in feats of war." "Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious." "The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves."

Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc. "Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill."

Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.

Mental; intellectual. (Obs.) "A course of learning and ingenious studies."

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"Ingenious" Quotes from Famous Books

... at a distance from him, the intervention of a special conducting mechanism becomes indispensable, in order to establish instantaneous communication between him and the distant performers. Many attempts, more or less ingenious, have been made of this kind, the result of which has not everywhere answered expectations. That of Covent Garden Theatre, in London, moved by the conductor's foot, acts tolerably well. But the electric metronome, set up by Mr. Van Bruge in the Brussels ...

— The Orchestral Conductor - Theory of His Art • Hector Berlioz

... had a message to leave to posterity and he left it in his empty canteen. However, unless attention could be called to the canteen, the man who found the skeleton would merely bury it and never think of looking in the canteen. So Oliver Corblay wrote that message in the lava; really the most ingenious piece of inlaid work I ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... was really due to the Government. To Cerizet, as manager of the paper, it was rather too evident that he was as a bird perched on a rotten bough; and then it was that he promoted that nice little joint-stock company, and thereby secured a couple of years in prison; he was caught, while more ingenious swindlers succeeded in catching ...

— A Man of Business • Honore de Balzac

... needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. The hoe is an ingenious instrument, calculated to call out a great deal of strength ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various

... contract for payment if you will give it me. Further, I want to say that I've been to look at your work, and it pleases me. There are plenty of men in this province who would have done it as solidly, but it's the general design and ingenious fixings that take my fancy. May I ask ...

— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss

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