(a.) A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Example Sentences:
(1) By this benchmark, there were a large number of idiot savants on show: not least among them the prime minister who appeared a great deal more confused about his position than he had a week ago.
(2) The three experiments described aimed to establish whether the achievements of idiot savant calendrical calculators were based solely on rote memory and arithmetical procedures, or whether these subjects also used rule-based strategies.
(3) It may be this rather than autism itself which is relevant to the idiot savant phenomenon.
(4) It was concluded that idiot savant calendrical calculators can use rule-based strategies to aid them in the calculation of the days on which past and future dates fall.
(5) The relationship of the autistic child and the adolescent idiot savant is discussed and brief reference made to the patient's method.
(6) For many centuries a host of naturalists, savants, physicians and veterinarians have tried to unravel the etiology of scabies in humans and animals and to discover effective remedies to control it.
(7) Answers by caretakers to a questionnaire on these topics revealed that autistic and nonautistic savants resembled each other closely in preoccupation but differed from controls matched for IQ and diagnosis.
(8) 'Idiots-savants' are people of low intelligence who have one or two outstanding talents such as calendrical calculation, drawing or musical performance.
(9) Bell attended the City College of New York, and drew close to such personal allies of his later years as the future neoconservative savant Irving Kristol .
(10) However, between normal and mentally handicapped populations and even within the idiot savant group, general cognitive capacity plays some part in determining the manner in which talents manifest themselves.
(11) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(12) Down to earth is not something you could accuse Alfred Jensen of, with his dazzling cosmological diagrams; or George Widener, described as a time traveller and calendar savant, who explores numerical patterns in the calendar over thousands of years; or Paul Laffoley – described by Rugoff as "the alternative Leonardo da Vinci" – whose work explores all sorts of things including communicating with intelligences in other dimensions.
(13) The jury was hung on this alternative charge in relation to Savant, Khan and Zaman, and the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide whether to proceed with a third trial.
(14) It is concluded that the young calculators have already inferred rules about calendrical structure and that their performance cannot be accounted for by practice alone, but these savants use cognitive strategies to aid their performance.
(15) The accuracy and the artistic merit of drawings produced by graphically gifted idiot-savants and by artistically able normal children were investigated in various conditions.
(16) said Darold Treffert, former president of the Wisconsin Medical Society, a psychiatrist at St Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac and an expert in savant syndrome.
(17) It is concluded that independent of diagnosis, preoccupations and repetitive behaviour appear to be closely associated with the manifestation of idiot-savant talents.
(18) Idiot savant special abilities can neither be regarded as the sole consequence of practice and training, nor are such skills based only on an efficient rote memory.
(19) Instead, idiots savants use strategies which are founded on the deduction and application of rules governing the material upon which their special ability operates.
(20) Unlike most, the music industry's tech savant can smile knowing which side he is likely to end up on.
Versed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Verse
(a.) Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced.
(a.) Turned.
Example Sentences:
(1) But as a former Eurocrat, he is well-versed in the weaknesses and believes it is right to highlight them in stark language.
(2) The simplicity of the method, in particular, the solution by the graphic method for estimation of the apparent volume of distribution, might be specially useful for clinicians not well versed in mathematics in applying clinical pharmacokinetics to drug therapy.
(3) At the same time, he is keen to do everything in his power to help Palace pick up three crucial points, right down to giving Pulis chapter and verse on the Cardiff players he knows inside out.
(4) His controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses, which provoked a religious opinion or fatwa, from the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the author's killing as punishment for blasphemy, is still banned in India.
(5) No wonder the European Union has banned the use of the term on packaging unless it can be backed up with scientific chapter and verse.
(6) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
(7) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
(9) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
(10) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
(11) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.
(12) Used on West’s Blame Game, the sample is un-missable: a looped piano figure under West and John Legend’s verses.
(13) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
(14) He gives the team and the club a good presence, and you could see that from what he gave to us here.” Leeds are a club well versed in setting records, and they have now not won at Elland Road for 11 matches, stretching back to March.
(15) For those not versed in 800m times, that's remarkably quick considering his age and the conditions.
(16) "His 'official' laureateship verse was published in the Times and even included a poem on the assassination of John F Kennedy.
(17) This last point seemed to draw some sympathy from Justice Anthony Kennedy, who hails from California and is well versed in the central role of the initiative process in the state's political culture.
(18) The show will also see him discuss topics including "pogonophobia, underpants and the human condition", pognophobia being a fear of beards – something Paxman is well versed in following the public outcry at his beard-sporting last year.
(19) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(20) Two divergent viewpoints, central verses peripheral, provide insight into possible mechanisms.