单词 | insee |
释义 | inseev. rare after 17th cent. 1. transitive. To perceive or discern the true nature of; to observe accurately or perceptively; to have or gain insight into. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > penetrate, discern [verb (transitive)] piercea1398 to look througha1525 insee1541 penetrate?1563 to see through ——1565 to look through ——1580 understand1587 to break through1597 fathom1633 unfathom1707 1541 G. Joye Frutefull Treatis Baptyme & Lordis Souper sig. Cviv Yet cannot he be deceyued which onely sercheth & inseeth hertes and raynes. 1574 C. Vitell tr. H. Niclaes Prophetie Spirit of Loue i. f. 3v I insawe with myne Eyes, the great Long-suffering of God. 1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxvi. 316 But none The Vniforme Diuersitie of Heauens in-sees but One. 1955 Washington Post 9 Apr. 18/4 (headline) ‘In-seeing’ the city that politics made. 2. intransitive. To have insight (into something). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > show perspicacity [verb (intransitive)] piercea1425 penetrate1540 insee1598 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. iii. 6 Deepely inseeing [L. introspexerit] into his loftie and bloudie disposition. 1631 E. Reeve Christian Divinitie xcvii. 381 Any spiritual person which had the spirit of discerning, might insee into them, and perceive them inflamed with a great zeale. 1697 J. Lead Fountain of Gardens II. 348 Those..whose Eyes see through all these contemptible things..are in-seeing into another manner of Sphere. 1992 V. F. Harris Incorporative Consciousness of Robert Bly iii. 57 Anyone who cannot insee is proclaimed blind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1541 |
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