Adjective: disert
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more disert |
| Superlative | most disert |
Sample Sentences
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To John Foxe, his honoured Father, the faithfull Martyrologian[…]a most disert searcher into the Antiquities of Histories[…] [1637, Jacob Verheiden, translated by Donald Lupton, The history of the moderne protestant divines, page 282:]
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[…]not that they are better, or more disert and eloquent than those [sc. books] of this learned Scotchman[…] [1661, Gabriel Naudé, translated by John Evelyn, Instructions concerning erecting of a library presented to my lord, the President De Mesme, page 45:]
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[…]for whence[…]can they better derive the Principles of that Science, than from this most Disert Poet[…] [1675, Edward Sherburne, quoting Joseph Scaliger, “Preface”, in The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix:]
Adjectives inflected like disert
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin disertus or French disert. See: Latin Adjectives '
disertus', French Adjectives '
disert'.