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pellucid, a. (n.)|pəˈl(j)uːsɪd|
[ad. L. pellūcid-us, f. pel-, perlūcēre to shine through: cf. lūcidus, f. lūcēre to shine. Frequent in scientific and literary use, but not colloquial.]
1. Having the property of transmitting, or allowing the passage of, light; translucent, transparent; clear. pellucid zone: see zone.
1619Bainbridge Descr. Late Comet 10 That the Comets taile is nothing else but an irradiation of the sunne through the pellucide head of the Comet. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. Psychathanasia i. ii. 5 A lamp armed with pellucid horn. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. i. iii. 6 A Bee hath four drye pellucid skinny wings. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxiii. (1695) 161 Thus Sand, or pounded Glass, which is opaque, and white to the naked Eye, is pellucid in a Microscope. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. i. iii. 10 [It] is diaphanous or pellucid, transmitting (like Glass) all Forms and Shapes. 1810Wordsw. Scenery of Lakes i. (1823) 27 The water is perfectly pellucid, through which..are seen, to a great depth, their beds of rock or of blue gravel. 1840G. V. Ellis Anat. 37 The inner wall, or septum, between the ventricles, is thin, almost pellucid. 1863Tyndall Heat iv. §127 (1870) 109, I will..send the rays..through this slab of pellucid ice.
2. fig.
†a. Easy to ‘see through’ or detect; ‘transparent’. Obs.
b. Showing the sense clearly, clear in style or expression.
c. Perceiving clearly, mentally clear.
1644R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. II. 150 Their craft was pellucid. 1661K. W. Conf. Charact. 23 The higher he thinks to soare..the more he unvailes his own imbecility, and renders himself pellucid. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Confess. of Drunkard, To muddle their faculties, perhaps never very pellucid. 1861J. Pycroft Ways & Words 237 Writers of the school of Addison were smooth, measured, and pellucid.
†B. n. A pellucid body or substance. rare.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. ii. vii. 73 Some are diaphanous, others opake..but in pellucids, as Helmont saith, that evestrum vitæ reverberates it self.
Add:[2.] d. Of sound, esp. music: clear, pure, uncluttered.
1952H. E. Bates Love for Lydia ii. v. 139 The nightingale gave a startling pellucid whistle, thin and piercing and exquisite, down in the oak spinney. 1955Times 9 May 3/7 Much of that pellucid and leonine piano writing sounded confused. 1976Classical Music Weekly 30 Oct. 14/1 A performance of Mozart's K482 Piano Concerto..beautifully pellucid. |