open-eyedadj.

1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον To Reader f. 17 So open eyed, and such faulte finders, thet they will despise these my poore mites.

1648 Bp. J. Hall Select Thoughts 41 A Christian..can be at once open-eyed to nature, and blinde to lust.

1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xii. 385 Youth itself, in the fervour of a strong attachment, is as open-eyed, as observant, and as prophetic as age.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 25 The result of open-eyed wisdom.

1888 B. F. Westcott Vic. Cross 6 The soul open-eyed to all the facts of the world.

1994–5 Prairie Fire Winter 105 Burr's sensibility is child-like in the best sense of the word—open-eyed and loving, powerful in its vision of the world as a dangerous, yet deeply spiritual place.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. liv. 27 Whosoever is smitten [by lightning] sleeping, is found open eyed [L. coniuentibus oculis].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 306 While you here do snoaring lie, Open-ey'd Conspiracie His time doth take. View more context for this quotation

1829 R. Southey All for Love iii. 29 This was no dream full well she knew; For open-eyed she lay, Conscious of thought and wakefulness.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xi. 184 He was not often quite awake, but slept open-eyed, and perhaps fancied himself most dreaming then.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. x. 338 A..just open-eyed puppy, disconsolate at the existence of the moon.

1930 P. R. Leach That Man Dawes x. 190 The purpose of the Minute Men..was to function as an open-eyed body of men throughout the state to watch elections, prevent vote frauds at the polls [etc.].

1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 122 The jumper..caught the woman's wrist and wrenched the money from her hand and flung it..against the reporter's peaceful and openeyed and sightless face.

1987 W. Percy Thanatos Syndrome (1989) i. x. 59 She's not passed out or even drunk, but open-eyed, dreamy, placative, and still smiling in the same moony way.

1799 S. T. Coleridge Brit. Stripling's War-song in Morning Post 24 Aug. 2 I hurl'd my mock lance thro' the objectless air, And in open-ey'd dream prov'd the strength of my arm.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. vii. liv. 102 An open-eyed dream that the world has done with sorrow.

1892 E. Lawless Grania I. iii. 17 His comfortable perch and open-eyed afternoon snooze.

1908 Daily Chron. 16 July 3/3 Mr. Robinson knows what he is talking about. He has lived twenty open-eyed years in the United States.

1987 A. Eyton Compl. F Plan Diet (BNC) 72 We are a health-conscious nation,..reacting with sheer open-eyed shock at the sight of a plate of bacon, eggs and bangers.

1990 C. Rose Dirty Man of Europe (BNC) 85 Its inquiries are not conducted with the same open-eyed approach to political manipulation as are those of the Select committees.

1894 F. T. Palgrave Jrnls. (1899) 246 He [sc. A. P. Stanley], perhaps open-eyed-ly,..backs men he only half or not at all agreed with, from pure charity.

1994 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 54 66 Open-eyedly giving up the quest... Open-eyedly: that is, not just stopping, but with an understanding of the quest as dependent on fantasy.