Both Uses of
competent
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter.†
Chpt 16 *
- That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability