adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an argute manner; sharply, shrewdly.

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1577.  Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619), 277. Such Aristotle hath so argutely and subtilly written.

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1762.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, xxxi. V. 241. ‘You are wrong,’ said my father argutely.

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