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skillfully

adv

Etymology

From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful + -ly.

  1. inherited from skilfully

Definitions

  1. In a skillful manner

    In a skillful manner; with skill.

    • On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at skillfully. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at skillfully. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at skillfully

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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