Literary notes about skilled (AI summary)
The term “skilled” is frequently used in literature to denote a high level of expertise and refined ability in various pursuits—from the arts and warfare to scholarly and domestic tasks. In ancient epics and religious narratives, it often characterizes characters whose proficiency in singing, dancing, and combat underlines their heroic or divine nature [1, 2, 3]. Equally, it highlights practical competence, as when mastery in trades, navigation, or even horsemanship secures a person’s reputation and reliability [4, 5, 6]. In philosophical and critical texts, "skilled" serves to distinguish those who have honed their intellectual and practical abilities, be it in poetic expression, mathematical reasoning, or even in the art of conversation [7, 8, 9]. Thus, across genres and epochs, the word elevates a subject’s actions and attributes to a level of cultivated excellence [10, 11, 12].
- And they were skilled in singing and dancing and were always assiduous in their attentions on that high-souled Rishi.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - These men did Sarpedon lead, skilled in bitter war.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod - And, O son of Kunti, superhumanly skilled in weapons, I also let fly from my bow arrows by tens of thousands, inspiring them with mantras!
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - The third brother had apprenticed himself to a turner, and as that is skilled labour, he was the longest in learning.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - For instance, horses are said to require attention, and not every person is able to attend to them, but only a person skilled in horsemanship.
— from Euthyphro by Plato - And who have confidence when fighting on horseback—the skilled horseman or the unskilled? The skilled.
— from Protagoras by Plato - But the prior sense of the word seems to have been "clever, skilled," and hence a writer or scribe.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - [Pg 10] 34 No one passes in the world as skilled in verse unless he has put up the sign of a poet, a mathematician, etc.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal - For you surely would not E regard the skilled mathematician as a dialectician? Want of reasoning power in mathematicians.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - He came from Naples, was a great gamester, a skilled swordsman, and was always ready to extract himself from a difficulty by a duel.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Archilochus and Acamas, both skilled in all the arts of war.
— from The Iliad by Homer - All of them are heroes skilled in weapons and of great reputation.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
