| 单词 |
perspicacious |
| 释义 |
perspicacious, a.|pɜːspɪˈkeɪʃəs|
[f. L. perspicāx, -cācem, having the power of seeing through, sharp-sighted, f. perspicĕre: see perspection and -acious. Cf. F. perspicace (1546 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Of clear or penetrating sight; clear-sighted. (Often passing into 2.) arch.
1616–61B. Holyday Persius (1673) 327 And can'st thou with a perspicacious sight Discern the shew of truth from truth? 1751Johnson Rambler No. 102 ⁋4 An expanse of waters..covered with so thick a mist, that the most perspicacious eye could see but a little way. 1879Miss M. A. Sprague Earnest Trifler xi. (1880) 117 Like the brilliant perspicacious stare of the critical world.
2. Of persons, their faculties, etc.: Of clear or penetrating mental vision or discernment.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. (1645) 52 He was rarely quick and perspicacious. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xx. 59 [These] testify the man to be of a most perspicacious wit. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible iii. 121 He was far too perspicacious to be imposed upon by any such false analogy.
¶3. erron. Clear, translucent, perspicuous. rare.
a1820Shelley Pr. Wks. (1888) I. 415 The genuine doctrine of ‘political Justice’, presented in one perspicacious and impressive river.
Hence perspiˈcaciously adv., with clear vision, clearly; perspiˈcaciousness.
1727in Bailey vol. II, Perspicaciousness. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 43 ⁋13 He that..too perspicaciously foresees obstacles. 1779–81― L.P., Denham Wks. II. 78 The particulars of resemblance are so perspicaciously collected. |
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