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Perspicience

Per-spi′cience

(pẽr-spĭsh′ens)
,
Noun.
[L.
perspicientia
, fr.
perspiciens
, p. p. of
perspicere
. See
Perspective
.]
The act of looking sharply.
[Obs.]
Bailey.

Definition 2024


perspicience

perspicience

English

Noun

perspicience (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of looking sharply; keen vision.
    • 1866, George Western Thompson, The Living Forces of the Universe:
      The conscious perspicience of the subjective content of the Self in the action of its orgasmic forces and of its own autopsic domination is Psychology.