Meanings
adjectiveperspicable (comparative more perspicable, superlative most perspicable)
comparative more perspicable · superlative most perspicable
- obsoletediscernible
I fancied that I saw the Fire and a Serpent engraven : which being most obvious to wind and weather , is most worn and least perspicable
1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC
Origin
- Latinperspicabilis
- Englishperspicable
From Latin perspicabilis, from perspicere.
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perspicable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perspicable
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “perspicable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perspicable.
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