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perceptibly, adv.|pəˈsɛptɪblɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a perceptible manner; (now chiefly) in or to a perceptible degree.
a1714Abp. Sharp Wks. (1754) III. xiii. 238 Whether this change be not always performed so perceptibly, as that the man himself can give a particular account both of the time when, and the manner how, it was wrought in him? 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 379 The nearest of which [stars]..is not perceptibly altered in magnitude. 1884F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sc. iii. (1885) 76 Our separate acts are perceptibly subject to our own control. |