Sagacious /(?)/

Sa·ga·cious

Sagacious

a.
  1. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
    Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
  2. Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
    Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious above our apprehension.
    Only sagacious heads light on these observations, and reduce them into general propositions.