pervialadj.
/ˈpəːvɪəl/, U.S. /ˈpərviəl/ rare. Now historical.
Transparent; clear.Apparently used only by George Chapman, or in reference to Chapman's writing. Pervious (cf. pervious adj. 1c) is the usual word.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > [adjective]
sutelc897
openeOE
plaina1398
sada1400
familiar1509
facile1531
lightsome1532
well-determined1560
pervial1595
uncurious1601
articulate1603
distinct1609
unmisinterpretablea1631
dilucida1640
limpid1649
dilucidate1651
unmysterious1663
incurious1664
elucidatea1670
accessible1681
distinguished1700
dilucidated1759
unmistakable1822
black and white1838
clear-cut1843
square on1963
1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence Ded. sig. A2 But that Poesie should be as peruiall as Oratorie, and plainness her speciall ornament [printed ornamrnt], were the plaine way to barbarisme.
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads xiv. Comm. 199 Yet all peruiall enough (you may well say) when such a one as I comprehend them.
1614 G. Chapman Free & Offenceles Justif. sig. **3v With long and varied praises, doth sometimes Mixe by the way, some sleight and peruiall crimes As sawce; to giue his flatteries taste and scope.
1959 G. Story in W. Alabaster Sonnets p. xxxv Readers who like their poetry ‘pervial’ and ‘plain’.
1986 C. Herford & P. Simpson Ben Jonson IV. p. xvi As Chapman would have said, it makes the text ‘pervial’ to the reader.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > [adverb]
sutelichec900
openlyOE
redelya1250
redlyc1275
in (also on) opena1382
distinctly1382
plainlya1393
lightsomely?1510
markly1533
natively1542
pervially?1611
dilucidly1638
unmistakably1665
realizingly1786
unambiguously1790
starkly1928
accessibly2003
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads ii. Comm. 34 Since a man may peruially (or as he passeth) discerne all that is to be vnderstood.
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads xiii. Comm. 187 Imagining his vnderstanding Readers eyes more sharpe, then not to see peruially through them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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