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Webster 1913 Edition


Transpicuous

Tran-spic′u-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
transpicere
to see or look through +
specere
,
spicere
, to see. Cf.
Conspicuous
.]
Transparent; pervious to the sight.
[R.]
“The wide, transpicuous air.”
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Transpicuous

TRANSPIC'UOUS

,
Adj.
[L. trans and specio, to see.] Transparent; pervious to the sight.
The wide transpicuous air.

Definition 2024


transpicuous

transpicuous

English

Adjective

transpicuous (comparative more transpicuous, superlative most transpicuous)

  1. Easily construed or seen through.
    "The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won converts by their transpicuous innocence." - Hugh Trevor Roper, in "The Invention of Tradition"