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1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 3 It is of importance that they be known..by al, and that so perspicuously, that..the meanest and simplest common soldier may thereby know euerie particular officer.

1637 T. Heywood Procus & Puella in Wks. (1874) VI. 123 Thy minde by myne I see perspicuously.

1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. v. 230 By having the reasons it presents perspicuously proposed, and unprejudicedly entertained.

1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 15. ⁋4 He will express himself perspicuously.

1792 R. Bage Man as he Is I. xxiv. 264 The conclusions ought to be taken from the premises strictly, but perspicuously.

1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. ii. 243 Dionysius..declares perspicuously the principle of the orthodox teaching.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vi. 35 His mother went on, reading very perspicuously and precisely.

1920 Times 3 Apr. 14 The Colonel perspicuously expresses his practice, with a disdain of all parade, rigmarole..or exaggeration.

1990 T. Honderich Mind & Brain (BNC) 38 They can be expressed formally in several ways..but are perspicuously expressed in just the forms we have.

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 317 This doctrine [of the Jesuits] when princes and other men of learning, iudgement, and experience in such pragmatical platformes do perspicuously looke into: [they] perceiue [etc.].