perspicuousadj.

Brit.

/pəˈspɪkjʊəs/, U.S.

/pərˈspɪkjəwəs/

Forms: 1500s perspicuouse, 1500s perspycuous, 1500s– perspicuous, 1700s perspicious.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin perspicuus.

Etymology: < classical Latin perspicuus transparent, clearly visible, conspicuous, clear, evident, lucid, in post-classical Latin also penetrating, discerning (late 4th cent. in Augustine), clear-sighted (early 5th cent. in Augustine), outstanding (6th cent.; < perspicere to see through (see perspective adj.) + -uus , suffix forming adjectives) + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French †perspicu transparent (c1490). Compare earlier perspicuate adj.With sense 3 compare also perspicacious adj.

a. Easily understood; clearly expressed; lucid.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective]

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1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 5^v Petitions..are certain general sentences, so plain, & so perspicuous, that they are perceiued to be true as soone as they are vttered.

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 190 Whereupon the Queene commaunded him..he should make that intricate sentence more perspicuous.

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 87 The proofe is so plaine, and his meaning so perspicuous.

1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 46 The reason is perspicuous, why no French Playes, when translated, have, or ever can succeed on the English Stage.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. viii. 121 Wheresoever he writes more obscurely, search out some more perspicuous Passages in the same Writer.

1817 Monthly Rev. 82 89 His style diffuses a sort of milk and water, which is perspicuous from diluteness, not from transparency.

1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. Introd. 13 Rules can be laid down for the perspicuous construction of paragraphs.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 930/1 His account is more minute and perspicuous than that of the authors of the subsequent century.

1991 J. Ashton Understanding Fourth Gospel ix. 363 The use of this term puzzles the man (it is not meant to be immediately perspicuous).

†b. Of a speaker, writer, painter, etc.: clear or unambiguous in style, meaning, or expression. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > of persons

plain1555

perspicuous1593

clear1711

1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 10 Or if Dianaes Priest be commonly obscure..cannot it be, that hee should be perspicuous at anie one time?

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K^v Prethee Maister Captaine Iacke be plaine and perspicuous with mee.

1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry 96 If you are obscure to yourself, you must have great good Luck indeed, if you are perspicuous to others.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. iv. 35 I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous .

1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. xv. 211 ‘I do not pretend to be very perspicuous,’ said the painter... ‘Mystery is said to be an ingredient in the sublime.’

1890 P. S. Hamilton Feast of St. Anne & Other Poems 36 (note) Denys—a very honest but not always very perspicuous writer.

†2.

a. Conspicuous in rank or merit; eminent, distinguished. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective]

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world-famous1832

galactic1902

tycoonish1958

mega1987

1582 R. Robinson in tr. J. Leland Learned Assertion Life Prince Arthure Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v Chusing a cheefe & most perspicuouse, a valiant & most victoriouse..Royall soueraigne.

1634 Malory's Most Anc. Hist. Prince Arthur Pref. The never-dying fame of the illustrious Trojan Hector is perspicuous.

a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 274 The person of every Soveraign Prince, is too notorious and perspicuous to need any such demonstration.

a1679 R. Wild Benefice (1689) iv. 40 With your perspicuous Luminaries to contemplate and perscrutate these Testifications, you shall be animadverted of my Deportment in the Oxfordian Society.

1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xvi. 177 To proceed in mythological order, the next perspicuous mason that we meet with in our accounts is Moses.

b. Easily or distinctly seen; conspicuous to the sight. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > conspicuous

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1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 102 Set in the chiefe of the Coate, as in the most perspicuous place.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The ruines that are now so perspicuous,..stand foure miles South-west from the aforesaid place.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 9 The reason of which creasing we shall next examine..the creasings or angular bendings..become the more perspicuous.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 50 Ely-minster..so Lofty built y^t its perspicious above ye town.

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless III. xv. 187 Sir Frederick's chamber..was judiciously darkened, so as to leave light enough to discern objects, yet not so much as to render them too perspicuous.

1805 J. Foster Ess. ii. ii. 140 An exceedingly distinct and perspicuous aspect.

1816 J. B. Burges Dragon Knight viii. 208 The web of dark futurity unroll'd Perspicuous grew, as when the solar ray Bursts from the east and heralds on the day.

a. Discerning; penetrating; acute; = perspicacious adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [adjective]

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on the spot1903

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft Epist. sig. Av I know you to be perspicuous, and able to see downe into the depth and bottome of causes.

1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 224 That character..is not seene many times by the most perspicuous sight.

1682 M. Coppinger Poems, Songs, & Love-verses 35 Nature, thou'rt wise, In giving ladies such perspicuous Eyes.

1815 C. Lloyd Second Brutus ii. ii. 366 Cicero's perspicuous intellect.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 12 The gods are heavy on me, and all the fates my perspicuous soul Darken with vision.

1958 Notes & Queries Oct. 459/1 Roland Robinson..is a perspicuous observer of natural beauty.

1988 P. Gardiner Kierkegaard iii. 38 He sought to enable his readers to acquire a more perspicuous insight into their own situation.

†b. Keen of sight; clear-sighted. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > clear- or sharp-sighted

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accipitral1881

1657 P. Heylyn Cosmographie (ed. 2) iii. 648 From one of the summits or tops thereof, a man of perspicuous [1652 perspicacious] eyes may discern the Euxine on the one hand, and the Mediterranean on the other.

4. Transparent; translucent. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective]

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1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. P4^v [Tabacco] of a tawny colour, somewhat inclining to red: most perspicuous and cleare.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 312 Water turning from perspicuous to white.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 251 Represented to our sight through the perspicuous body of the Air.

1710 R. Sibbald Hist Fife (1803) 140 Some of these peebles are of a clear and white perspicuous colour, some are like agates.

1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 224 Sapphire is a Stone of a yellow or Skie-blue Colour, perspicuous like the most pure Azure.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ix. 139 The old hat..was consigned to the gutter, and its place supplied by good perspicuous glass.

1849 J. K. Paulding Puritan & his Daughter I. vi. 155 I can see in the perspicuous cloud of human reason a clear way to get into insurmountable difficulty by striving to get out of it.

1936 Nation 24 Oct. 486 Water may not seem transparent to the observer but has a perspicuous opacity in which the fish swims with ease.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	perspicuous
释义	perspicuousadj. Brit. /pəˈspɪkjʊəs/, U.S. /pərˈspɪkjəwəs/ Forms: 1500s perspicuouse, 1500s perspycuous, 1500s– perspicuous, 1700s perspicious. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin perspicuus. Etymology: < classical Latin perspicuus transparent, clearly visible, conspicuous, clear, evident, lucid, in post-classical Latin also penetrating, discerning (late 4th cent. in Augustine), clear-sighted (early 5th cent. in Augustine), outstanding (6th cent.; < perspicere to see through (see perspective adj.) + -uus , suffix forming adjectives) + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French †perspicu transparent (c1490). Compare earlier perspicuate adj.With sense 3 compare also perspicacious adj. 1. a. Easily understood; clearly expressed; lucid. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] plaina1398 cleara1400 luminousc1450 lightsome1532 perspiculous1565 perspicuous1570 luculent1597 dilucida1640 limpid1649 dilucidate1651 elucidatea1670 dilucidated1759 lucid1786 pellucid1831 chiselleda1862 transpicuous1877 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 5^v Petitions..are certain general sentences, so plain, & so perspicuous, that they are perceiued to be true as soone as they are vttered. 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 190 Whereupon the Queene commaunded him..he should make that intricate sentence more perspicuous. 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 87 The proofe is so plaine, and his meaning so perspicuous. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 46 The reason is perspicuous, why no French Playes, when translated, have, or ever can succeed on the English Stage. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. viii. 121 Wheresoever he writes more obscurely, search out some more perspicuous Passages in the same Writer. 1817 Monthly Rev. 82 89 His style diffuses a sort of milk and water, which is perspicuous from diluteness, not from transparency. 1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. Introd. 13 Rules can be laid down for the perspicuous construction of paragraphs. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 930/1 His account is more minute and perspicuous than that of the authors of the subsequent century. 1991 J. Ashton Understanding Fourth Gospel ix. 363 The use of this term puzzles the man (it is not meant to be immediately perspicuous). †b. Of a speaker, writer, painter, etc.: clear or unambiguous in style, meaning, or expression. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > of persons plain1555 perspicuous1593 clear1711 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 10 Or if Dianaes Priest be commonly obscure..cannot it be, that hee should be perspicuous at anie one time? 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K^v Prethee Maister Captaine Iacke be plaine and perspicuous with mee. 1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry 96 If you are obscure to yourself, you must have great good Luck indeed, if you are perspicuous to others. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. iv. 35 I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous . View more context for this quotation 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. xv. 211 ‘I do not pretend to be very perspicuous,’ said the painter... ‘Mystery is said to be an ingredient in the sublime.’ 1890 P. S. Hamilton Feast of St. Anne & Other Poems 36 (note) Denys—a very honest but not always very perspicuous writer. †2. a. Conspicuous in rank or merit; eminent, distinguished. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective] mereeOE athelOE couthOE brightOE namecundc1175 outnumenc1175 noble?c1225 ketec1275 sheenc1275 tirfulc1275 glorious13.. losedc1305 of great renownc1330 glorifieda1340 worthly or worthy in wonea1350 clearc1374 nameda1382 solemna1387 renomeda1393 famous?a1400 renomé?a1400 renowneda1400 notedc1400 of (great, high, etc.) name?c1430 celebrate?1440 namely1440 famosec1449 honourable?c1450 notedc1450 parent?c1450 glorificatec1460 heroical?a1475 insignite?a1475 magnific1490 well-fameda1492 exemie1497 singular1497 preclare1503 magnificential1506 laureate1508 illustre?a1513 illustred1512 magnificent1513 preclared1530 grand1542 celebrated1549 heroicc1550 lustrantc1550 magnifical1557 illustrate1562 expectablec1565 ennobled1571 laurel1579 nominated1581 famosed1582 perspicuous1582 big1587 famed1595 uplifted1596 illustrious1598 celebrousc1600 luculent1600 celebrious1604 fameful1605 famoused1606 renownful1606 bruitful1609 eminent1611 insignious1620 clarousa1636 far-fameda1640 top1647 grandee1648 signalized1652 noscible1653 splendid1660 voiced1661 gloried1671 laurelled1683 distinguished1714 distinct1756 lustrious1769 trumpeted1775 spiry1825 world-famous1832 galactic1902 tycoonish1958 mega1987 1582 R. Robinson in tr. J. Leland Learned Assertion Life Prince Arthure Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v Chusing a cheefe & most perspicuouse, a valiant & most victoriouse..Royall soueraigne. 1634 Malory's Most Anc. Hist. Prince Arthur Pref. The never-dying fame of the illustrious Trojan Hector is perspicuous. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 274 The person of every Soveraign Prince, is too notorious and perspicuous to need any such demonstration. a1679 R. Wild Benefice (1689) iv. 40 With your perspicuous Luminaries to contemplate and perscrutate these Testifications, you shall be animadverted of my Deportment in the Oxfordian Society. 1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xvi. 177 To proceed in mythological order, the next perspicuous mason that we meet with in our accounts is Moses. b. Easily or distinctly seen; conspicuous to the sight. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > conspicuous superapparent?a1475 apparent?1541 conspicuous1545 extant1566 conspicable1579 perspicuous1586 kenspeck1590 public1598 prominent1628 eye-taking1635 bold1678 kenspeckle1714 remarkable1726 telegraphic1809 supersalient1843 blatant1889 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 102 Set in the chiefe of the Coate, as in the most perspicuous place. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The ruines that are now so perspicuous,..stand foure miles South-west from the aforesaid place. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 9 The reason of which creasing we shall next examine..the creasings or angular bendings..become the more perspicuous. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 50 Ely-minster..so Lofty built y^t its perspicious above ye town. 1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless III. xv. 187 Sir Frederick's chamber..was judiciously darkened, so as to leave light enough to discern objects, yet not so much as to render them too perspicuous. 1805 J. Foster Ess. ii. ii. 140 An exceedingly distinct and perspicuous aspect. 1816 J. B. Burges Dragon Knight viii. 208 The web of dark futurity unroll'd Perspicuous grew, as when the solar ray Bursts from the east and heralds on the day. 3. a. Discerning; penetrating; acute; = perspicacious adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [adjective] sharpc888 yepec1000 spacka1200 yare-witelc1275 fellc1300 yap13.. seeinga1382 far-castinga1387 sightya1400 perceivinga1425 snellc1425 politic?a1439 quickc1449 pregnant?a1475 pert1484 quick-wittedc1525 apt1535 intelligentc1540 queemc1540 ready-witted1576 political1577 of (a) great, deep, etc., reach1579 conceited1583 perspicuous1584 sharp-witteda1586 shrewd1589 inseeing1590 conceived1596 acute1598 pregnate1598 agile1599 nimble-headed1601 insighted1602 nimble1604 nimble-witted1604 penetrant1605 penetrating1606 spraga1616 acuminous1619 discoursing1625 smart1639 penetrativea1641 sagacious1650 nasute1653 acuminate1654 blunt-sharpa1661 long-headed1665 smoky1688 rapid1693 keen1704 gash1706 snack1710 cute1731 mobile1778 wide awake1785 acuminated1786 quick-minded1789 kicky1790 snap1790 downy1803 snacky1806 unbaffleable1827 varmint1829 needle-sharp1836 nimble-brained1836 incisivea1850 spry1849 fast1850 snappy1871 hard-boiled1884 on the spot1903 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft Epist. sig. Av I know you to be perspicuous, and able to see downe into the depth and bottome of causes. 1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 224 That character..is not seene many times by the most perspicuous sight. 1682 M. Coppinger Poems, Songs, & Love-verses 35 Nature, thou'rt wise, In giving ladies such perspicuous Eyes. 1815 C. Lloyd Second Brutus ii. ii. 366 Cicero's perspicuous intellect. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 12 The gods are heavy on me, and all the fates my perspicuous soul Darken with vision. 1958 Notes & Queries Oct. 459/1 Roland Robinson..is a perspicuous observer of natural beauty. 1988 P. Gardiner Kierkegaard iii. 38 He sought to enable his readers to acquire a more perspicuous insight into their own situation. †b. Keen of sight; clear-sighted. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > clear- or sharp-sighted bright-eyeda1393 sightya1400 well-eyeda1425 well-seeing?a1425 eagle-eyeda1475 well-sighteda1529 clear-eyed1530 quick-sighted1542 oculate1549 quick-eyed1561 eyed1563 sharpsighted1571 clear-sighted1586 eagle-sighted1589 lynx-eyed1597 mouse-eyed1599 lycophosed1600 lycophosy1600 right-eyed1600 nimble-eyed1605 perspicacious1616 lyncean1622 piercing-sighted1630 perspicuous1657 sharp-eyed1672 gimlet-eyed1752 keen-eyed1781 keen-sighted1813 hawk-eyed1818 accipitrine1872 accipitral1881 1657 P. Heylyn Cosmographie (ed. 2) iii. 648 From one of the summits or tops thereof, a man of perspicuous [1652 perspicacious] eyes may discern the Euxine on the one hand, and the Mediterranean on the other. 4. Transparent; translucent. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] shireOE brightOE through-shineOE cleanc1040 cleara1400 transparent1413 crystalc1425 crystallinec1425 crystal-clear?a1439 pure1481 perspicuatea1500 beryl1508 through-shining1526 diaphane1561 thorough-seeable1562 pellucid1563 sheer1565 translucent1568 liquid1590 tralucent?1592 perspicuous1599 thorough light1601 diaphanic1614 diaphanous1614 perspicable1615 translucid1615 diaphanal1616 lucid1620 diaphaned1626 transpicuous1638 perlucid1647 dioptrical1760 dioptric1801 unconcealing1804 see-through1851 pellucent1886 pool-clear1924 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. P4^v [Tabacco] of a tawny colour, somewhat inclining to red: most perspicuous and cleare. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 312 Water turning from perspicuous to white. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 251 Represented to our sight through the perspicuous body of the Air. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist Fife (1803) 140 Some of these peebles are of a clear and white perspicuous colour, some are like agates. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 224 Sapphire is a Stone of a yellow or Skie-blue Colour, perspicuous like the most pure Azure. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ix. 139 The old hat..was consigned to the gutter, and its place supplied by good perspicuous glass. 1849 J. K. Paulding Puritan & his Daughter I. vi. 155 I can see in the perspicuous cloud of human reason a clear way to get into insurmountable difficulty by striving to get out of it. 1936 Nation 24 Oct. 486 Water may not seem transparent to the observer but has a perspicuous opacity in which the fish swims with ease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1570
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