perspicaciouslyadv.
/ˌpəːspəˈkeɪʃəsli/, U.S. /ˌpərspəˈkeɪʃəsli/ In a perspicacious manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [adverb] > with clarity
cleara1400
clearly1413
perspicuously1602
perspicaciously1662
1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 120/2 To have the motes out of ones eyes, viz. to see clearly and perspicaciously.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 43. ⁋13 He that..too perspicaciously foresees obstacles.
1779 S. Johnson Denham in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 19 The particulars of resemblance are so perspicaciously collected.
1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 964/2 Facts, dates, and events, arranged methodically and even perspicaciously according to certain epochs, eras, or subjects.
1913 Times 11 July 6/1 The independent Zeit..for months past has perspicaciously criticized Austro-Hungarian foreign policy.
1988 M. M. R. Khan When Spring Comes vi. 161 Winnicott has written, most perspicaciously and insightfully, about the dissociation between the ‘true’ and ‘false’ self in a person.
1998 Amer. Hist. Rev. 103 1662/2 They have all published on these matters before and many of them more fully and perspicaciously since.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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