perspicil
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin perspicilla, from perspicere (“to look through”).
Noun[edit]
perspicil (plural perspicils)
- (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
References[edit]
- “perspicil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.