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comparative more adept or adepter, superlative most adept or adeptest
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient quotations examples
Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […]
plural adepts
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient quotations examples
When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
1894-95, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure