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Definition of Lucid
1. Adjective. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable. "A perspicuous argument"
Category relationships: Language, Linguistic Communication
Similar to: Clear
Derivative terms: Limpidity, Lucidity, Pellucidity, Perspicuity, Perspicuousness
2. Adjective. Having a clear mind. "A lucid moment in his madness"
3. Adjective. Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner. "She was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"
4. Adjective. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. "Transparent crystal"
Similar to: Clear
Derivative terms: Limpidity, Pellucidity, Pellucidness, Transparence, Transparence, Transparency, Transparentness
Definition of Lucid
1. a. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Definition of Lucid
1. Adjective. clear; easily understood ¹
2. Adjective. mentally rational; sane ¹
3. Adjective. bright, luminous, translucent or transparent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lucid
1. easily understood [adj] : LUCIDLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Lucid
1. Clear, not obscured or confused, as in a lucid moment or lucid spoken expression. Origin: L. Lucidus, clear (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucid
Literary usage of Lucid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"To sustain a deed as having been executed in a lucid interval the proof must be
clear, going to the mental state and habit of the grantor, not merely to an ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1800)
"... of the dark and lucid Diß and Periphery Micrometers. ... of two lucid points,
we could have an intire lucid ..."
3. The Sun: Ruler, Fire, Light, and Life of the Planetary System by Richard Anthony Proctor (1872)
"Not only are lucid stars so richly strewn on the Milky Way that for the whole
heavens to be as richly spread 6000 new lucid stars would be wanted, ..."
4. Literary Values and Other Papers by John Burroughs (1904)
"lucid LITERATURE NOTHING can make up in a writer for the want of lucidity. ...
Then there are lucid intervals — strong, telling lines; then the shadow falls ..."
5. The Law of Insanity in Its Application to the Civil Rights and Capacities by Henry Foster Buswell (1885)
"WILLS MADE IN lucid INTERVALS. §. A person habitually insane may make a valid in
a lucid interval.1 This is the rule alike of the common and the civil law.2 ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"... to be able to make a disposition of his lands with understanding and reason ;
this, he adds, is such a memory as the law calls sane and perfect. lucid ..."
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