visiveadj.

/ˈvɪzɪv/

Etymology: < medieval Latin visīvus, < Latin vīsus seeing, sight: see -ive suffix. So French visif, -ive (15th cent.), Italian visivo, Spanish visivo, Portuguese visivo.

? Obsolete.

Of or pertaining to sight or to the power of seeing; visual.

a. visive faculty, visive power, visive virtue, etc.: The faculty of sight, the power of vision.In early use virtue visive, after medieval Latin virtus visiva; cf. French virtu, faculté, puissance visive (15–16th cent.).

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun]

i-sightc888

seneOE

lightOE

eyesightc1175

sightc1200

rewarda1382

seeingc1390

viewc1390

outwitc1400

starec1400

speculation1471

eyec1475

vision1493

ray1531

visive power1543

sightfulnessa1586

outsight1605

conspectuitya1616

visibility1616

optics1643

rock of eye1890

visuality1923

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iv. f. 135^v/1 Remotion of the mater conioynt, by euaporation, and confortacion of the vertue visiue.

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 82^v A water.. with a notable comforting of the vertue visiue or seeing.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xxxiv. comm. God elevated his visive powre above nature to see so farre.

1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. xxix. §5 As oft as he is disposed to exercise his visive facultie.

1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 306 Ocular Medicines are two fold, viz. such as are referred to the Visive Vertues, and such as are referred to the Eyes themselves.

1666 W. Spurstowe Spiritual Chymist (1668) 34 A principle, which is as necessary to goodness, as a visive power to the eye, to enable it to discern its object.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §59. 64 For this End, chiefly, the Visive Sense seems to have been bestowed on Animals.

1733 J. B. tr. A. Belloste Hosp. Surgeon Vol. II (ed. 2) 263 This man's eye was fair and sound to all appearance, yet was it utterly deprived of the visive faculty.

1804 ‘Gabrielli’ Something Odd! II. 54 The neat simplicity of Eloisa's dress..struck on the visive faculty of ‘my Lord’.

1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 337 He had thrown a new and important light on the true character of these visive sensations.

figurative.1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 54 He hath given an understanding,..and this all men have, the inward visive faculty.a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1704) V. v. 178 This new Spiritual visive Power, with which the Understanding is endowed.1728 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1791) 229/2 You bid me open my eyes, but alas! I want a visive faculty.1830 T. Taylor tr. Celsus Arguments 31 If, closing the perceptive organs of sense, you look upward with the visive power of intellect.a1838 Jamieson Influence Spirit (1844) 82 Ignorance of such a description that it cannot receive the light; a want of the visive faculty.

b. Serving as a means by which sight or vision is made possible. Now rare or Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > serving as means for sight

visive1634

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. i. x. 26 That [spirit] which causeth the sight, is named the Visive.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ii. Pref. In curing Diseases of the Eyes..we must alwaies mingle those things which comfort the visive spirits with other Medicines.

1657 Physical Dict. Visive-nerve, the nerve that is the instrument of the visive faculty, or of seeing.

1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. vii. 119 The Optick or Seeing Nerves; so called..because they carry the visive Spirits to the Eyes.

1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xxx. 49 The lightning..dashes from the blinding eyes The visive spirits dazzled and bedimm'd.

c. visive organ n. the organ of vision; the eye.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun]

eyeeOE

the fleshly eyec1175

balla1400

window1481

glazier1567

light1580

crystal1592

orb1594

glass1597

optic1601

twinkler1605

lampa1616

watchera1616

wink-a-peeps1615

visive organa1652

ogle1673

peeper1691

goggle?1705

visual orb1725

orbit1727

winker1734

peep?1738

daylights?1747

eyewinker1808

keeker1808

glimmer1814

blinker1816

glim1820

goggler1821

skylight1824

ocular1825

mince pie1857

saucer1858

mince1937

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. iii. 79 Lucretius..believes the Idolum in his own Visive organ to be adequate to the Sun it self.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 99 Let Intellectual Tubes give thee a glance of things, which visive Organs reach not.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 110 Vision is here taken materially for that impression which is made upon the visive organs by the rays of light.

d. Having the power of vision; able to see.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > having sight

seeinga1398

sightful1594

eyesighted1599

unblinded1611

visive1686

unblind1818

sighted1836

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. sig. Ssss7 God..impressed three Phantasms on the sensitive or visive Soul..of Abraham.

1793 T. Taylor tr. Emperor Julian Two Orations 22 We infer his perfective power from the whole phænomena, because he gives vision to visive natures.

a. Forming the object of vision; capable of being seen.

ΘΚΠ

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

i-seyenlyeOE

iseneOE

senec1175

seyelyc1225

visiblea1340

seena1398

sighty1398

seeablea1425

spectablec1440

sightfulc1480

sightly1532

appearingc1550

discernable1561

eyely1561

discoverable1572

spectible1581

observable1589

visive1598

aspectable1612

observant1615

perspicable1621

perspiculative1623

remarkable1623

eyeable1633

visory1633

appearable1651

dignoscible1671

discernible1678

traceable1748

noticeable1753

visual1757

distinguishable1762

1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge ii. 196 It looseth the corporal visiue form.

1648 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs (ed. 2) x. 247 For open and solid bodies are not fit to receive or transmit the visive species.

b. Optics. Falling upon or appearing to the eye.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > appearing or addressed to eye

ocular1589

oculary1608

visive1646

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 156 This doth happen when the axis of the visive cones, diffused from the object, fall not upon the same plane.

1670 E. R. Animadversions Glanvill's Ne Plus Ultra 23 The visive rays.

1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 456^v If the Sight-hole be..any whit large, it admitteth too many visive Rays.

3. Sent out from the eyes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > visual ray

visual1412

visive1622

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 283 It seeming..that the visiue beames in both..strucke home vpon our soules.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	visive
释义	visiveadj. /ˈvɪzɪv/ Etymology: < medieval Latin visīvus, < Latin vīsus seeing, sight: see -ive suffix. So French visif, -ive (15th cent.), Italian visivo, Spanish visivo, Portuguese visivo. ? Obsolete. Of or pertaining to sight or to the power of seeing; visual. 1. a. visive faculty, visive power, visive virtue, etc.: The faculty of sight, the power of vision.In early use virtue visive, after medieval Latin virtus visiva; cf. French virtu, faculté, puissance visive (15–16th cent.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] i-sightc888 seneOE lightOE eyesightc1175 sightc1200 rewarda1382 seeingc1390 viewc1390 outwitc1400 starec1400 speculation1471 eyec1475 vision1493 ray1531 visive power1543 sightfulnessa1586 outsight1605 conspectuitya1616 visibility1616 optics1643 rock of eye1890 visuality1923 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iv. f. 135^v/1 Remotion of the mater conioynt, by euaporation, and confortacion of the vertue visiue. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 82^v A water.. with a notable comforting of the vertue visiue or seeing. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xxxiv. comm. God elevated his visive powre above nature to see so farre. 1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. xxix. §5 As oft as he is disposed to exercise his visive facultie. 1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 306 Ocular Medicines are two fold, viz. such as are referred to the Visive Vertues, and such as are referred to the Eyes themselves. 1666 W. Spurstowe Spiritual Chymist (1668) 34 A principle, which is as necessary to goodness, as a visive power to the eye, to enable it to discern its object. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §59. 64 For this End, chiefly, the Visive Sense seems to have been bestowed on Animals. 1733 J. B. tr. A. Belloste Hosp. Surgeon Vol. II (ed. 2) 263 This man's eye was fair and sound to all appearance, yet was it utterly deprived of the visive faculty. 1804 ‘Gabrielli’ Something Odd! II. 54 The neat simplicity of Eloisa's dress..struck on the visive faculty of ‘my Lord’. 1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 337 He had thrown a new and important light on the true character of these visive sensations. figurative.1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 54 He hath given an understanding,..and this all men have, the inward visive faculty.a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1704) V. v. 178 This new Spiritual visive Power, with which the Understanding is endowed.1728 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1791) 229/2 You bid me open my eyes, but alas! I want a visive faculty.1830 T. Taylor tr. Celsus Arguments 31 If, closing the perceptive organs of sense, you look upward with the visive power of intellect.a1838 Jamieson Influence Spirit (1844) 82 Ignorance of such a description that it cannot receive the light; a want of the visive faculty. b. Serving as a means by which sight or vision is made possible. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > serving as means for sight visive1634 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. i. x. 26 That [spirit] which causeth the sight, is named the Visive. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ii. Pref. In curing Diseases of the Eyes..we must alwaies mingle those things which comfort the visive spirits with other Medicines. 1657 Physical Dict. Visive-nerve, the nerve that is the instrument of the visive faculty, or of seeing. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. vii. 119 The Optick or Seeing Nerves; so called..because they carry the visive Spirits to the Eyes. 1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xxx. 49 The lightning..dashes from the blinding eyes The visive spirits dazzled and bedimm'd. c. visive organ n. the organ of vision; the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] eyeeOE the fleshly eyec1175 balla1400 window1481 glazier1567 light1580 crystal1592 orb1594 glass1597 optic1601 twinkler1605 lampa1616 watchera1616 wink-a-peeps1615 visive organa1652 ogle1673 peeper1691 goggle?1705 visual orb1725 orbit1727 winker1734 peep?1738 daylights?1747 eyewinker1808 keeker1808 glimmer1814 blinker1816 glim1820 goggler1821 skylight1824 ocular1825 mince pie1857 saucer1858 mince1937 a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. iii. 79 Lucretius..believes the Idolum in his own Visive organ to be adequate to the Sun it self. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 99 Let Intellectual Tubes give thee a glance of things, which visive Organs reach not. 1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 110 Vision is here taken materially for that impression which is made upon the visive organs by the rays of light. d. Having the power of vision; able to see. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > having sight seeinga1398 sightful1594 eyesighted1599 unblinded1611 visive1686 unblind1818 sighted1836 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. sig. Ssss7 God..impressed three Phantasms on the sensitive or visive Soul..of Abraham. 1793 T. Taylor tr. Emperor Julian Two Orations 22 We infer his perfective power from the whole phænomena, because he gives vision to visive natures. 2. a. Forming the object of vision; capable of being seen. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] i-seyenlyeOE iseneOE senec1175 seyelyc1225 visiblea1340 seena1398 sighty1398 seeablea1425 spectablec1440 sightfulc1480 sightly1532 appearingc1550 discernable1561 eyely1561 discoverable1572 spectible1581 observable1589 visive1598 aspectable1612 observant1615 perspicable1621 perspiculative1623 remarkable1623 eyeable1633 visory1633 appearable1651 dignoscible1671 discernible1678 traceable1748 noticeable1753 visual1757 distinguishable1762 1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge ii. 196 It looseth the corporal visiue form. 1648 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs (ed. 2) x. 247 For open and solid bodies are not fit to receive or transmit the visive species. b. Optics. Falling upon or appearing to the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > appearing or addressed to eye ocular1589 oculary1608 visive1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 156 This doth happen when the axis of the visive cones, diffused from the object, fall not upon the same plane. View more context for this quotation 1670 E. R. Animadversions Glanvill's Ne Plus Ultra 23 The visive rays. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 456^v If the Sight-hole be..any whit large, it admitteth too many visive Rays. 3. Sent out from the eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > visual ray visual1412 visive1622 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 283 It seeming..that the visiue beames in both..strucke home vpon our soules. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1543
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