perspicil

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noun

An optical glass; a telescope.

OriginLatin perspicilla →
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Meanings

nounperspicil (plural perspicils)

plural perspicils

  1. obsoleteAn optical glass; a telescope.

    Chronology (Sharp-sighted as the eagle's eye, that can Out-stare the broad-beam'd Day's meridian) Will have a perspicil to find her out

    a. 1649, Richard Crashaw, On the Frontispiece of Isaacson's Chronology

Origin

  1. Latinperspicilla
  2. Englishperspicil

From Latin perspicilla, from perspicere (“to look through”).

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APA

perspicil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perspicil

MLA

“perspicil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perspicil. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “perspicil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perspicil.

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