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  1. cautelousadjective

    Skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.

  2. cautelousadjective

    Cautious, careful.

  3. Etymology: From cauteleux.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cautelousadjective

    Etymology: cauteleux, Fr.

    Palladio doth wish, like a cautelous artisan, that the inward walls might bear some good share in the burden. Henry Wotton.

    Of themselves, for the most part, they are so cautelous and wily headed, especially being men of so small experience and practice in law matters, that you would wonder whence they borrow such subtilties and sly shifts. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    Your son
    Will or exceed the common, or be caught
    With cautelous baits and practice. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cautelousadjective

    caution; prudent; wary

  2. Cautelousadjective

    crafty; deceitful; false

  3. Etymology: [F. cauteleux, LL. cautelosus. See Cautel.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cautelous in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cautelous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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