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Webster 1913 Edition


Perspicuous

Per-spic′u-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
perspicuus
, from
perspicere
to look through. See
Perspective
.]
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;
as, a
perspicuous
writer;
perspicuous
statements.
“The purpose is perspicuous.”
Shak.
Per-spic′u-ous-ly
,
adv.
Per-spic′u-ous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Perspicuous

PERSPIC'UOUS

,
Adj.
[L.perspicuus.]
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


perspicuous

perspicuous

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Adjective

perspicuous (comparative more perspicuous, superlative most perspicuous)

  1. Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  2. (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.
  3. (rare) Transparent; translucent.

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