| 单词 | perspicacity |
| 释义 | perspicacity|pɜːspɪˈkæsɪtɪ|
[ad. L. perspicācitās, f. perspicāx: see prec. and -ity: cf. F. perspicacité (15–16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Keenness of sight. Obs. or arch.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 493 From these fables of Lynceus came the opinion of the singular perspicacity of the beast Linx. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. ii. 5 Nor can there any thing escape the perspicacity of those eyes which were before light, and unto whose opticks there is no opacity. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. ii. vii. 55 The barn-owl..watches in the dark, with the utmost perspicacity and perseverance.
2. Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.
1548Becon Solace of Soule Wks. (1560) ii. 115 Thou shalte neuer by the perspycacyte and quyckenes of thy owne reason perceyue how it maye be possible. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxviii. (1668) 323 The greatest wits want perspicacity in things that respect their own interest. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Blackmore Wks. III. 173 [This] is the only reproach which all the perspicacity of malice..has ever fixed upon his private life. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 153 A masterpiece of perspicacity as well as perspicuity. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) III. xvi. 183 She showed the same perspicacity in the selection of her agents. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 61 Lessing, in his Laocoon, has discussed with luminous perspicacity [etc.]. |
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