perspicable

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin perspicabilis, from perspicere.

Adjective

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perspicable (comparative more perspicable, superlative most perspicable)

  1. (obsolete) discernible
    • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, 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

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perspicable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.