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† ˈperspicil Obs.
[ad. med. or mod.L. perspicillum, f. perspic-ĕre to see through + -illum, dim. and instrumental suffix: cf. aspergillum.]
An optic glass; a lens; a telescope or microscope.
1614T. Tomkis Albumazar i. iii, Sir, 'tis a perspicil..With this I'll read a leaf of that small Iliad..Twelve long miles off. 1625N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. iv. (1635) 87 It is manifest out of the experiment of the new Perspicils, that the bodies of the Sunne and Jupiter haue at least a double motion. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 174 The Perspicil, as well as the Needle, hath enlarged the habitable World. 1680Counterplots 29 There is no such mirrour so clear and true to look in, no such optick or perspicil to see with.
fig.1611S. Page Commendatory Verses in Coryat's Crudities, And give the world in one Synoptick quill Full proofe that he is Brittaine's Perspicill. 1675Sir E. Sherburne tr. Manilius Pref. 2 That the Galaxie is a Congeries of Numberless small stars was by the sole Perspicil of Reason discovered by the Ancients. |