| 释义 |
† perˈspicience Obs.
[ad. L. perspicientia, f. perspicient-em, pr. pple. of perspicĕre to see through: see perspection and -ence.]
Keen or clear perception; insight.
1661Feltham Resolves ii. iii. (1677) 163 Though it [Faith] be set in a heighth, beyond our Humane Perspicience, I can believe it rather super-elevated, then contradictive to our Reason. 1721–90in Bailey. 1768[W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull II. xx. 163 His conducting this perplexing affair with so much judgment and perspicience. |