perspicable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin perspicabilis, from perspicere.
Adjective[edit]
perspicable (comparative more perspicable, superlative most perspicable)
- (obsolete) discernible
- 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
- I fancied that I saw the Fire and a Serpent engraven : which being most obvious to wind and weather , is most worn and least perspicable
References[edit]
“perspicable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.