| 单词 | ocular proof |
| 释义 | > as lemmasocular proof b. Perceived by or made evident to sight, visible; conveyed to the mind through the actual sight of a thing; set visibly before a person. Now only in ocular proof. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > appearing or addressed to eye ocular1589 oculary1608 visive1646 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. x. 70 Your occular proportion doeth declare the nature of the audible: for if it please the eare well, the same represented by delineation to the view pleaseth the eye well. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxiii. 349 The scar That still remaines a marke too ocular To leaue your heart yet blinded. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 365 Giue me the oculer [1623 Occular] proofe. View more context for this quotation 1702 in Rous's Academia Cœlestis Advt. sig. A3v Giving his Testimony, by Ocular Demonstration. 1798 Trans. Soc. Promotion Useful Information 39 The best way to introduce any thing new which is useful among farmers, is to give them occular demonstration. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 383 Of my zeal you shall have ocular demonstration. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 1373/1 The proof ocular arrived in the shape of twenty-three glamorously produced, Vogue-shaped ‘units’. 1991 G. Josipovici Big Glass (BNC) 79 There it is. Ocular proof. < as lemmas |
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