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visibly, adv.|ˈvɪzɪb(ə)lɪ|
Forms: 4–5 visibely, 5 visibilly, 5–6 vysybly, 6 visybly, 5– visibly (7 vissiblie); also 5 visablelyche.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a visible manner († or form); so as to be visible to the eye or sight.
Passing insensibly into next.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 522 Þat same body and blood invisibily, and not þe same visibely. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 79 Þai growe ilk a ȝere visibilly, so þat þe smale waxez grete. c1420Chron. Vilod. 2141 As þus visablelyche to hurre modur he dude aper. 1484Caxton Fables of Alfonce xii, The goddesse Venus vysybly shewed her self to me. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 124 b, Somtyme as it were an aungell of lyght, somtyme visybly, somtyme fantastically. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vii. 4 The Table wherein all my thoughts are visibly Character'd and engrau'd. 1612W. Colson Gen. Tresury Advt. A iij b, The other faults escaped in printing, or figures not visibly printed are..corrected with the pen. 1617J. Taylor (Water P.) Obs. & Trav. fr. Lond. to Hamburgh Wks. (1630) iii. 87/2 If it were possible that the hand of mortall men..could visibly set forth the magnificent glory of the immortal Creator. 1736Butler Anal. i. vii. Wks. 1874 I. 145 A moral scheme of government then is visibly established. 1781Cowper Truth 390 Solyma's interior shrine, Where..Dwelt visibly the light-creating God. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam xii. xxxiii. 6 Down that mighty stream..The boat fled visibly—three nights and days. 1825Scott Betrothed vi, The mouth visibly arranged itself into a smile of inexpressible sweetness. 1857W. K. Loftus Trav. Chaldæa & Susiana 270 Traces of which were still visibly adhering to many of the tablets.
2. So as to be clearly evident, manifest, or perceptible; to an extent which can be (readily) seen or observed; evidently, plainly; manifestly, obviously.
1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §81. 337 God hath oft visibly shewed himselfe by extraordinary meanes to fight for his. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §9 The Envy..was visibly the cause of the Murther. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. iii. 17 God, having..made the Practice thereof..visibly beneficial to all, with whom the vertuous Man has to do. 1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. i. Wks. 1871 I. 282 It being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving Substance. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 278, I saw my Deliverance indeed visibly put into my Hands. 1839James Louis XIV, III. 308 A war which had been visibly overhanging them for more than two years. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 400 The cardinals were visibly afraid of the position which had been taken by the French king. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv, Lambert was visibly relieved, and his daughter reflected her father's mood.
†3. By actual sight. Obs.—1
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 314 He cast anchor at Saint Sebastian, beginning visiblie to finde, that the Iland was no lesse fortified then had beene described vnto them. |