eyesightn.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪsʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈaɪˌsaɪt/

Forms:

α. see eye n.¹ and sight n.¹

β. Middle English een-syght (north midlands), Middle English eȝen siȝt, Middle English eȝen-siȝt, Middle English eȝen syȝtt, Middle English eien sight, Middle English eiȝen siȝth, Middle English ein siȝt, Middle English eyen-sight, Middle English eyen syghte, Middle English eyne syght, Middle English insiȝt (north-west midlands), Middle English yene-siȝt, Middle English–1500s eyen sight, Middle English–1500s eyen syght; Scottish pre-1700 ein siȝt.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, sight n.¹

Etymology: < eye n.¹ + sight n.¹In the β. forms apparently with first element in the plural (compare plural α. forms and β. forms at eye n.¹); however, such forms may perhaps represent the reflex of an unrecorded Old English genitive phrase *ēagena sihð , in which ēagena is genitive plural (compare with prefixed form of the second element (see i-sight n.) the phrase ēagena gesihð in quot. OE at sense 1a). Compare also forms and discussion at eyesore n.

a. The power or faculty of seeing; sight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun]

i-sightc888

seneOE

lightOE

eyesightc1175

sightc1200

rewarda1382

seeingc1390

viewc1390

outwitc1400

starec1400

speculation1471

eyec1475

vision1493

ray1531

visive power1543

sightfulnessa1586

outsight1605

conspectuitya1616

visibility1616

optics1643

rock of eye1890

visuality1923

OE tr. Let. of Boniface to Eadburga in K. Sisam Stud. Hist. Old Eng. Lit. (1953) 219 He sæde þæt him wurde for þisse micclan beorhtnesse his eagena gesihð forstynted.]

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17317 Ne mahht tu sen..Þurrh flæshess eȝhe sihhþe.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 31 In hire sunne inȝong of hire ehsihðe.

c1390 (?c1350) Barlaam & Josaphat (Vernon) l. 288 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 219 To Men þat han lost heore eȝe siht.

a1450 (?1419–20) Friar Daw's Reply (Digby) l. 731 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 95 But him was ȝouun iȝe siȝt, for al his grete noise.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 39 (MED) Whantynge of eye syght in peyn doth me bynde.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Lii The hurt thei susteine in their bodies, decaie of beautie, marryng of theyr eiesight, or also blindnesse.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 239 The eysight is still good.

1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 420 The Basilisk and Eagle cannot match his eye-sight.

1663 J. Beale Let. 29 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 133 The perception of the smallest object requireth the clearest eyesight.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Juice It..strengthens the Eye sight.

1766 B. Martin New Art Surv. by Goniometer 6 With regard to Geodesia or Land Surveying, and all kinds of Longimetry, the natural eyesight ought to be assisted.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 330 These organs..manifest themselves to..the eye-sight.

1867 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 381/2 A miser has to pay a high fee to the surgeon that saves his eyesight.

1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xv. 221 It often uses its wonderful eyesight to detect a bird more skilful than itself.

1961 Housewife (Ceylon) Dec. 19 Vitamin A..assists our eyesight.

2010 New Yorker 29 Mar. 47/1 Adults who read a lot as kids tend to have poor eyesight.

b. figurative. As attributed to the heart, the mind, etc. Cf. eye n.¹ 3, sight n.¹ 8b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun]

anyitOE

eyesightc1175

sightc1175

sentimentc1374

mindc1384

intentc1386

fantasyc1400

savoura1425

spiritsc1450

perceiverancea1500

perceiverationa1500

senses1528

perceivance1534

sense1553

kenc1560

mind-sight1587

knowledge1590

fancy1593

animadversion1596

cognition1651

awaring1674

perception1678

scan1838

apperception1848

perceivedness1871

the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > [noun] > spiritual faculties

eyesightc1175

spiritual1649

superintelligence1839

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1868 Þatt drihhtin shollde ȝifenn uss. God sawless eȝhe sihhþe.

a1400 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 39 (MED) Þou hast hom sene thorou eghe-sight of hert fre.

1539 R. Taverner Catechisme f. 5^v Our dulnes is so greate & the eyesyght of our mynde so blount and daselyng at so open a lyght.

1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. i. xi. 66 We doe..helpe our spirituall eye sight with oft looking in the glasse of Gods word and promises.

1698 S. Clark Let. in J. Humfrey Ultimas Manus 9 How far forth the Light in your Papers has cleared my Eye-sight, and contributed towards a cure of my Mistakes, will be seen in what follows.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 204 All constraint..blinds The eye sight of discov'ry.

1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. 1st Ser. x. 167 To our blinded eyesight it seems a cruel will.

1857 R. A. Willmott Pleasures of Lit. xx. 111 The only eye-sight employed is the critical.

1918 Biblical World 52 164/1 Those whose spiritual eyesight had been so accustomed to the mist of idealism as to be untrustworthy.

2000 B. O'Shaughnessy Consciousness & World xi. 354 The mental eyesight of this observer can..be misted over..by the fog of his own unreason.

2. Range of vision; presence; eyeshot. Only in prepositional phrases, as beyond (also within, out of, etc.) eyesight. Also with possessive, as out of my eyesight, etc. Also figurative. Cf. sight n.¹ 10.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > range or field of

eyeOE

sightc1175

eyesightc1225

kenning1530

reach1579

kena1592

sight-shot1663

command1697

field1721

eye scope1853

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1048 Ða wæron þa wælisce menn ætforan mid þam cynge & forwregdon ða eorlas þet hi ne moston cuman on his eagon gesihðe.]

c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 267 (MED) Eleusius..hehte swiðe don hire ut of his eh sihðe.

a1250 Ureisun ure Louerde (Lamb.) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 187 Ich ne mai ne ne dear cume, lufsum god, in þin ehsihþe.

c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 4104 Vt of min hehseht!

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 7232 He wole not..haue god in his iye sight.

c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) l. 608 That profered you golde and fe, Out of myne eye syght for to be.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 239 His tongue all impacient to speake and not see, Did stumble with haste in his ey-sight to bee.

1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 55 The minde contemplating Heauen, walkes beyond eye sight.

1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys i. iii. ii. 131 We could not see an hill, or swelling of the ground within eye-sight.

1719 T. Morgan Nature & Consequences Enthusiasm 20 Many Things which are above and beyond his Eye-sight, or out of Sight.

1820 Let. Dec. in First Statem. Great Brit. Disputed Points of Boundary (1827) 147 Such indeed was the face of the country within eyesight.

1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 81 615/1 A vast range of sterile mountains which stretch away to the northeast for hundreds of miles beyond eyesight.

1921 P. Casey & T. Casey Gay-cat xxxi. 289 The dog never had been out of eyesight of the Frisco Kid.

2012 N. Eastman et al. Forensic Psychiatry vi. 154 The patient's location should be known at all times but they need not necessarily be within eyesight.

3. The action or fact of seeing or looking; the use of the eyes; observation. Formerly also: †an instance of this, a look (obsolete). Now only in by eyesight. Cf. sight n.¹ 11a. †to set good eyesight on: to look hard at (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun]

eyesenea1225

lookinga1225

sight1297

eyesight?c1335

seeing1372

view?c1475

vision1493

speculation1509

discernment1614

ken1667

outsight1681

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 104 (MED) For sinful man is ein siȝt Ne let us neuer ben ischend.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4300 Quilum allan wit an ei sight.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 749 They two wolde nat leve off there yghesyght of hym.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xxii. f. cxiiij Won off the wenches..sett goode eyesight on hym.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xxii. 25 So shal y^e Lorde rewarde me..acordinge to the clenes of my handes in his eye sighte.

1573 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job 76 Then must wee consider euen by eye sight, that our lyfe..slydeth away from us.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xix. 135 That in Josephus which he sets down from his own eye-sight.

1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. ii. 108 Real presence.., vouched by eye-sight, commands our belief.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 31 Things..known to us by the best evidence, by eye-sight.

1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 6 His comparisons..are drawn from actual eye-sight.

1947 T. Deevy Strange Birth in King of Spain's Daughter & Other One-act Plays 26 They know her by eye-sight.

2001 Ecography 24 485 Very easily/well identifiable in the field by eye sight.

Compounds

eyesight test n.

ΚΠ

1881 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 13 June 4/3 It is surprising that railroad and steamboat companies do not insist on a regular..eyesight test.

1917 Titonka (Iowa) Topic 20 Sept. Passing his general physical examination even to the eyesight test.

1991 E. Barker O Caledonia (1992) ii. 27 She tripped over and collided with objects so often that she had to have a special eyesight test.

2003 Daily Tel. 21 July 6/2 The policeman who chatted to him..suggested that he might like to take an eyesight test.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	eyesight
释义	eyesightn. Brit. /ˈʌɪsʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌsaɪt/ Forms: α. see eye n.¹ and sight n.¹ β. Middle English een-syght (north midlands), Middle English eȝen siȝt, Middle English eȝen-siȝt, Middle English eȝen syȝtt, Middle English eien sight, Middle English eiȝen siȝth, Middle English ein siȝt, Middle English eyen-sight, Middle English eyen syghte, Middle English eyne syght, Middle English insiȝt (north-west midlands), Middle English yene-siȝt, Middle English–1500s eyen sight, Middle English–1500s eyen syght; Scottish pre-1700 ein siȝt. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, sight n.¹ Etymology: < eye n.¹ + sight n.¹In the β. forms apparently with first element in the plural (compare plural α. forms and β. forms at eye n.¹); however, such forms may perhaps represent the reflex of an unrecorded Old English genitive phrase *ēagena sihð , in which ēagena is genitive plural (compare with prefixed form of the second element (see i-sight n.) the phrase ēagena gesihð in quot. OE at sense 1a). Compare also forms and discussion at eyesore n. 1. a. The power or faculty of seeing; sight. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] i-sightc888 seneOE lightOE eyesightc1175 sightc1200 rewarda1382 seeingc1390 viewc1390 outwitc1400 starec1400 speculation1471 eyec1475 vision1493 ray1531 visive power1543 sightfulnessa1586 outsight1605 conspectuitya1616 visibility1616 optics1643 rock of eye1890 visuality1923 OE tr. Let. of Boniface to Eadburga in K. Sisam Stud. Hist. Old Eng. Lit. (1953) 219 He sæde þæt him wurde for þisse micclan beorhtnesse his eagena gesihð forstynted.] c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17317 Ne mahht tu sen..Þurrh flæshess eȝhe sihhþe. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 31 In hire sunne inȝong of hire ehsihðe. c1390 (?c1350) Barlaam & Josaphat (Vernon) l. 288 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 219 To Men þat han lost heore eȝe siht. a1450 (?1419–20) Friar Daw's Reply (Digby) l. 731 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 95 But him was ȝouun iȝe siȝt, for al his grete noise. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 39 (MED) Whantynge of eye syght in peyn doth me bynde. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Lii The hurt thei susteine in their bodies, decaie of beautie, marryng of theyr eiesight, or also blindnesse. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 239 The eysight is still good. 1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 420 The Basilisk and Eagle cannot match his eye-sight. 1663 J. Beale Let. 29 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 133 The perception of the smallest object requireth the clearest eyesight. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Juice It..strengthens the Eye sight. 1766 B. Martin New Art Surv. by Goniometer 6 With regard to Geodesia or Land Surveying, and all kinds of Longimetry, the natural eyesight ought to be assisted. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 330 These organs..manifest themselves to..the eye-sight. 1867 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 381/2 A miser has to pay a high fee to the surgeon that saves his eyesight. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xv. 221 It often uses its wonderful eyesight to detect a bird more skilful than itself. 1961 Housewife (Ceylon) Dec. 19 Vitamin A..assists our eyesight. 2010 New Yorker 29 Mar. 47/1 Adults who read a lot as kids tend to have poor eyesight. b. figurative. As attributed to the heart, the mind, etc. Cf. eye n.¹ 3, sight n.¹ 8b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] anyitOE eyesightc1175 sightc1175 sentimentc1374 mindc1384 intentc1386 fantasyc1400 savoura1425 spiritsc1450 perceiverancea1500 perceiverationa1500 senses1528 perceivance1534 sense1553 kenc1560 mind-sight1587 knowledge1590 fancy1593 animadversion1596 cognition1651 awaring1674 perception1678 scan1838 apperception1848 perceivedness1871 the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > [noun] > spiritual faculties eyesightc1175 spiritual1649 superintelligence1839 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1868 Þatt drihhtin shollde ȝifenn uss. God sawless eȝhe sihhþe. a1400 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 39 (MED) Þou hast hom sene thorou eghe-sight of hert fre. 1539 R. Taverner Catechisme f. 5^v Our dulnes is so greate & the eyesyght of our mynde so blount and daselyng at so open a lyght. 1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. i. xi. 66 We doe..helpe our spirituall eye sight with oft looking in the glasse of Gods word and promises. 1698 S. Clark Let. in J. Humfrey Ultimas Manus 9 How far forth the Light in your Papers has cleared my Eye-sight, and contributed towards a cure of my Mistakes, will be seen in what follows. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 204 All constraint..blinds The eye sight of discov'ry. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. 1st Ser. x. 167 To our blinded eyesight it seems a cruel will. 1857 R. A. Willmott Pleasures of Lit. xx. 111 The only eye-sight employed is the critical. 1918 Biblical World 52 164/1 Those whose spiritual eyesight had been so accustomed to the mist of idealism as to be untrustworthy. 2000 B. O'Shaughnessy Consciousness & World xi. 354 The mental eyesight of this observer can..be misted over..by the fog of his own unreason. 2. Range of vision; presence; eyeshot. Only in prepositional phrases, as beyond (also within, out of, etc.) eyesight. Also with possessive, as out of my eyesight, etc. Also figurative. Cf. sight n.¹ 10. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > range or field of eyeOE sightc1175 eyesightc1225 kenning1530 view1553 reach1579 kena1592 sight-shot1663 command1697 field1721 eye scope1853 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1048 Ða wæron þa wælisce menn ætforan mid þam cynge & forwregdon ða eorlas þet hi ne moston cuman on his eagon gesihðe.] c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 267 (MED) Eleusius..hehte swiðe don hire ut of his eh sihðe. a1250 Ureisun ure Louerde (Lamb.) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 187 Ich ne mai ne ne dear cume, lufsum god, in þin ehsihþe. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 4104 Vt of min hehseht! a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 7232 He wole not..haue god in his iye sight. c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) l. 608 That profered you golde and fe, Out of myne eye syght for to be. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 239 His tongue all impacient to speake and not see, Did stumble with haste in his ey-sight to bee. View more context for this quotation 1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 55 The minde contemplating Heauen, walkes beyond eye sight. 1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys i. iii. ii. 131 We could not see an hill, or swelling of the ground within eye-sight. 1719 T. Morgan Nature & Consequences Enthusiasm 20 Many Things which are above and beyond his Eye-sight, or out of Sight. 1820 Let. Dec. in First Statem. Great Brit. Disputed Points of Boundary (1827) 147 Such indeed was the face of the country within eyesight. 1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 81 615/1 A vast range of sterile mountains which stretch away to the northeast for hundreds of miles beyond eyesight. 1921 P. Casey & T. Casey Gay-cat xxxi. 289 The dog never had been out of eyesight of the Frisco Kid. 2012 N. Eastman et al. Forensic Psychiatry vi. 154 The patient's location should be known at all times but they need not necessarily be within eyesight. 3. The action or fact of seeing or looking; the use of the eyes; observation. Formerly also: †an instance of this, a look (obsolete). Now only in by eyesight. Cf. sight n.¹ 11a. †to set good eyesight on: to look hard at (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] eyesenea1225 lookinga1225 sight1297 eyesight?c1335 seeing1372 view?c1475 vision1493 speculation1509 discernment1614 ken1667 outsight1681 ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 104 (MED) For sinful man is ein siȝt Ne let us neuer ben ischend. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4300 Quilum allan wit an ei sight. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 749 They two wolde nat leve off there yghesyght of hym. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xxii. f. cxiiij Won off the wenches..sett goode eyesight on hym. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xxii. 25 So shal y^e Lorde rewarde me..acordinge to the clenes of my handes in his eye sighte. 1573 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job 76 Then must wee consider euen by eye sight, that our lyfe..slydeth away from us. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xix. 135 That in Josephus which he sets down from his own eye-sight. 1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. ii. 108 Real presence.., vouched by eye-sight, commands our belief. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 31 Things..known to us by the best evidence, by eye-sight. 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 6 His comparisons..are drawn from actual eye-sight. 1947 T. Deevy Strange Birth in King of Spain's Daughter & Other One-act Plays 26 They know her by eye-sight. 2001 Ecography 24 485 Very easily/well identifiable in the field by eye sight. Compounds eyesight test n. ΚΠ 1881 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 13 June 4/3 It is surprising that railroad and steamboat companies do not insist on a regular..eyesight test. 1917 Titonka (Iowa) Topic 20 Sept. Passing his general physical examination even to the eyesight test. 1991 E. Barker O Caledonia (1992) ii. 27 She tripped over and collided with objects so often that she had to have a special eyesight test. 2003 Daily Tel. 21 July 6/2 The policeman who chatted to him..suggested that he might like to take an eyesight test. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1175
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