perspicil

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin perspicilla, from perspicere (to look through).

Noun

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perspicil (plural perspicils)

  1. (obsolete) An optical glass; a telescope.
    • a. 1649, Richard Crashaw, On the Frontispiece of Isaacson's Chronology:
      Chronology
      (Sharp-sighted as the eagle's eye, that can
      Out-stare the broad-beam'd Day's meridian)
      Will have a perspicil to find her out

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