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Definition of Transpicuous
1. a. Transparent; pervious to the sight.
Definition of Transpicuous
1. Adjective. Easily construed or seen through. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transpicuous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transpicuous
Literary usage of Transpicuous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Sent from her through the wide transpicuous air, To the terrestrial moon be as a
... What if thai light, Now thy wine's transpicuous, purged from all Its ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"... Bentley renders : No light, but rather a transpicuous gloom. Another fine
Miltonic passage : Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"I. Clear, lucid, bright, limpid, crystalline, transpicuous, translucent, that
may be seen through. ... Clear, lucid, open, perspicuous, transpicuous. 2. ..."
4. The Paradise Lost by John Milton (1850)
"What if that light, 140 Sent from her through the wide transpicuous air, ...
transpicuous : Transparent. 143. Enlightening her, Sfc. : A singular ..."
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