perceptibleadj.adv.

?a1430 T. Hoccleve De Beata Virgine l. 65 in Minor Poems (1970) ii. 287 Among the membres of a man, Oonly his ye is perceptible of light.

?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) ii. sig. Cvi^v The cell perceptible of my brain intelligible, was yet to grosse.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. vii. 50 That..will not hinder them from being very hoat to the sense of feeling (which is most perceptible of dense thinges).

1753 Bp. T. Greene Four Disc. Four Last Things (new ed.) 7 When this separation happens, of the soul from the body,..the soul..becomes..more perceptible of happiness or misery.

1772 Birmingham Counterfeit I. i. 19 Too perceptible of the tender emotions of love.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxv. f. 237^v You abide in such extasie the space of xl. houres at the least without any beating of poulse or other perceptible motion.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xviii. 130 What e, soundeth in the end, when there be no mo vowells in the syllab, then it self, and that it is somtime silent, but to good purpos, somtime passant, scarse perceptible, & then like the quik i, it hath bene tuched allredie.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1032 The soule is not perceptible by any sense.

1666 Duchess of Newcastle Descr. New World 22 Yet were they not so thin as the body of air, or else they would not be perceptible by animal sight.

1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous iii. 149 As to this Decree of God's, for making things perceptible: What say you, Philonous?

1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments i. §ii. iv. 32 It is the acute and delicate discernment of the man of taste, who distinguishes the minute, and scarce perceptible, differences of beauty and deformity.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. x. 114 Colonel Brandon's partiality for Marianne, which had so early been discovered by his friends, now first became perceptible to Elinor. View more context for this quotation

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 227 A distinct sulcus between the liver and gall bladder is nearly always perceptible to the touch.

1935 I. Compton-Burnett House & its Head iv. 53 ‘I thought’, said Duncan, after a just perceptible pause, ‘that she would be better amongst us all.’

1989 B. H. Kerblay Gorbachev's Russia v. 96 Perceptible in the wording of these rejections is the concern to deter the ecology movements from rushing off.

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1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 36 After a P..the A separates itself more perceptible than from any other letter.

1709 Brit. Apollo 19–24 Aug. The Perceptibleness of Motion.

1975 T. M. Knox tr. G. W. F. Hegel Aesthetics I. iii. 254 The lyric displays predominantly the inner heart only and therefore when it takes up the external world does not need to pursue it to such definite perceptibleness.