单词 | perspicable |
释义 | † ˈperspicable, a. Obs. [ad. late L. perspicābilis that may easily be beheld (Ammianus, Augustine), f. *perspicārī = perspic-ĕre to see through, look closely into, perceive, behold. Cf. L. conspicābilis, f. conspicārī beside conspicĕre.] 1. That can be seen through, transparent.
1615T. Adams Spir. Navigator 5 This is ‘mare vitreum’ a sea of glasse more cleare perspicable and transparent. 2. Capable of being beheld; visible; in view.
1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 237 Eight parts, which are all perspicable from the middle station of the Town. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 142 There be but nineteen Pillars at this day extant, yet the fractures and bases of other one and twenty more are perspicable. |

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