
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin versutus (wily, cunning) + – ious
EXAMPLE
“…And what do I not ow thee for thy versutious Complements to my Lady Lambert, whose beauty and elegance bewitched my affections, as thou well knowest; so that I could not forbear toying and tickling her at my son Ireton’s Funeral in Somerset-house, before all the Company!…”
From: A Third Conference Between O. Cromwell and Hugh Peters In Saint James’s Park, 1660