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Webster 1828 Edition

Perceant

PER'CEANT

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Noun.

Piercing; penetrating. [Not used.]

Definition 2024

perceant

perceant

English

Alternative forms

persant

Adjective

perceant ‎(comparative more perceant, superlative most perceant)

(now rare, archaic) Piercing, sharp. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.10:
  wondrous quick and persant was his spright, / As Eagles eye, that can behold the Sunne [...].