Definition of Perspicuities

1. perspicuity [n] - See also: perspicuity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perspicuities

perspectograph
perspectographs
perspectography
perspecuity
perspexes
perspicable
perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspicaciousness
perspicacities
perspicacity
perspicacy
perspicience
perspicil
perspicils
perspicuities (current term)
perspicuity
perspicuous
perspicuously
perspicuousness
perspirability
perspirable
perspirate
perspiration
perspirations
perspirative
perspiratory
perspiratory glands
perspire
perspired

Literary usage of Perspicuities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Study and Practice of the Law Considered, in Their Various Relations to by John Raithby (1816)
"... disappointment follow to the auditors, if, scattered over a wide extended field, their force be weakened for want of the perspicuities of arrangement ? ..."

2. Digest of Decisions of Law and Practice in the Patent Office and the United by Amos Winfield Hart (1898)
"The same canons or methods of criticism applied to the ambiguities or perspicuities of tli domestic patent should be also applied to those of the foreign ..."

3. The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight by Thomas Urquhart (1834)
"... for attaining to the knowledge of the maine quaesitum ; yet in this comment upon that table, for the more perspicuities sake, and that the reader may as ..."

4. History of the Catholic Church of Scotland from the Introduction of by Alphons Bellesheim (1889)
""To believe and to obey are the guiding perspicuities of men ; and the principle of the Reformation was to subvert authority, and to substitute reason as ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Perspicuities on Dictionary.com!Search for Perspicuities on Thesaurus.com!Search for Perspicuities on Google!Search for Perspicuities on Wikipedia!

Search