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limpid, a.|ˈlɪmpɪd|
Also 7 limpidde.
[ad. F. limpide, or L. limpidus, prob. related to early lumpa, class.L. lympha clear liquid: see lymph.]
Chiefly of fluids: Free from turbidity or suspended matter; pellucid, clear.
1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Limpidde, cleere, pure. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 54 Chrystall..is a minerall body..made of a lentous colament of earth, drawne from the most pure and limpid juyce thereof. 1682Dryden Religio Laici 341 And still the nearer to the spring we go, More limpid, more unsoiled, the waters flow. 1784Cowper Task i. 374 Winds from all quarters agitate the air, And fit the limpid element for use. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. xiv. (1849) 127 The pure and limpid crystal of Iceland spar. 1860W. Collins Wom. White i. viii. 34 The eyes are of that soft, limpid, turquoise blue, so often sung by the poets.
b. of immaterial things and fig.
1649Needham Case Commw. 16 It were vaine to raise more dust out of the Cobwebs of Antiquity in so limpid a case. a1734North Lives (1826) III. 389 Death the only means to free a limpid soul..from that dungeon of flesh. 1847Illustr. Lond. News 10 July 27/1 She possesses a pure and limpid soprano of considerable compass. 1848Dickens Dombey xv, Devoutly hoping that his limpid intellect might not be brought to bear on his difficulties until they were quite settled. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 6 There is a singular transparency in the mind, as there is also in the limpid language, of Homer. |