videndan.
rare.
With plural agreement. Things worth seeing or which ought to be seen.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > sights (of a place)
singularity1576
sights1632
videnda1765
visibility1775
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxxi. 117 In my list, therefore, of Videnda at Lyons, this, tho' last—was not, you see, least.
1771 M. Tyson Let. in Nichols Lit. Anecd. (1814) VIII. 571 Gray's notes..contain the Videnda in all parts of Great Britain, as Houses, Antiquities, Views, &c.
1790 J. Byng in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 157 Thus is one often humbug'd by printed accounts of visionary Videnda!
1964 W. H. Auden in Listener 1 Oct. 525/1 Windows averted from plausible videnda but admitting a light one could mend a watch by.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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