Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a perspicuous manner; clearly; plainly.

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  • adverb With clarity and lucidity.

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  • adverb in a clear and lucid manner

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Examples

  • Penmanship was almost a fine art in colonial days, the one indispensable accomplishment of a school teacher; and he was often hired to exercise it in writing a name "perspicuously" in a book.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Clearly, the names of these accidents are relative terms, since predications of the form ˜x is knowledge™ or ˜x is a perception™ are more perspicuously represented as of the form ˜x is knowledge of

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • The artists 'arcanum;: Or, The essence of a variety of useful and entertaining arts, carefully and perspicuously laid down; the greater part from actual experiments by F.

    120th Tournament of Roses Parade: An Intimate Photographic Essay 2009

  • Borrowing on the medievals 'behalf the notation of first-order logic, we can make this characterization of relative terms precise by saying that a term F is relative just in case a predication of the form ˜Fx™ is more perspicuously represented as a predication of the form ˜Rxy™.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • In effect, the first of these questions asks whether Skolem's Paradox is simply an artifact of our abbreviations, an artifact which would disappear if Skolem's Paradox were formulated more carefully and perspicuously.

    Skolem's Paradox Bays, Timothy 2009

  • According to Frege, such ambiguities provide further evidence that natural language is not suited to the task of representing propositions and inferential relations perspicuously.

    Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

  • As Freud perspicuously noted, the line separating psychological health and psychological illness is hazy, All my joys to this are folly, meandering, and frequently straddled.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • As Freud perspicuously noted, the line separating psychological health and psychological illness is hazy, All my joys to this are folly, meandering, and frequently straddled.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • As Freud perspicuously noted, the line separating psychological health and psychological illness is hazy, All my joys to this are folly, meandering, and frequently straddled.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • As Freud perspicuously noted, the line separating psychological health and psychological illness is hazy, All my joys to this are folly, meandering, and frequently straddled.

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

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