cautelous

1. (obsolete) Skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.Examples: "The least touch of [Gaveston's] memory adds more to the King's affliction, who is fixt not to forget, or forgive, so bold and heinous a Trespass. The operations in the King were yet so powerful, but the jelousies of the Actors [who have killed Gaveston] are as cautelous, so fair a warning-piece bids them in time make good their own security. Lincoln, the principal Pillar of this Faction, follows his Adversary [Gaveston] to the Grave, but with a much fairer Fortune."; "I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts."obsolete

2. (obsolete) Cautious, careful.Examples: "Some are of disposition fearefull, some bold, most cautelous, all Savage."obsolete