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Webster 1913 Edition
Perspicuous
1.
Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
[Obs.]
Peacham.
2.
Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous;
“The purpose is perspicuous.” as, a
perspicuous
writer; perspicuous
statements. Shak.
Per-spic′u-ous-ly
, adv.
Per-spic′u-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Perspicuous
PERSPIC'UOUS
,Adj.
Transparent; translucent. [Little used.]
1.
Clear to the understanding; that may be clearly understood; not obscure or ambiguous. Language is perspicuous when it readily presents to the reader or hearer the precise ideas which are intended to be expressed. Meaning, sense or signification if perspicuous, when it is clearly and easily comprehended.Definition 2024
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perspicuous
English
Adjective
perspicuous (comparative more perspicuous, superlative most perspicuous)
- Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
- 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 4,
- I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;
- 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 4,
- (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
- (rare) Transparent; translucent.
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Translations
clearly expressed
logic: explicitly laid out
References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.