| 单词 | visive faculty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvisive faculty a. visive faculty, visive power, visive virtue, etc.: The faculty of sight, the power of vision.In early use virtue visive, after medieval Latin virtus visiva; cf. French virtu, faculté, puissance visive (15–16th cent.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] i-sightc888 seneOE lightOE eyesightc1175 sightc1200 rewarda1382 seeingc1390 viewc1390 outwitc1400 starec1400 speculation1471 eyec1475 vision1493 ray1531 visive power1543 sightfulnessa1586 outsight1605 conspectuitya1616 visibility1616 optics1643 rock of eye1890 visuality1923 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iv. f. 135v/1 Remotion of the mater conioynt, by euaporation, and confortacion of the vertue visiue. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 82v A water.. with a notable comforting of the vertue visiue or seeing. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xxxiv. comm. God elevated his visive powre above nature to see so farre. 1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. xxix. §5 As oft as he is disposed to exercise his visive facultie. 1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 306 Ocular Medicines are two fold, viz. such as are referred to the Visive Vertues, and such as are referred to the Eyes themselves. 1666 W. Spurstowe Spiritual Chymist (1668) 34 A principle, which is as necessary to goodness, as a visive power to the eye, to enable it to discern its object. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §59. 64 For this End, chiefly, the Visive Sense seems to have been bestowed on Animals. 1733 J. B. tr. A. Belloste Hosp. Surgeon Vol. II (ed. 2) 263 This man's eye was fair and sound to all appearance, yet was it utterly deprived of the visive faculty. 1804 ‘Gabrielli’ Something Odd! II. 54 The neat simplicity of Eloisa's dress..struck on the visive faculty of ‘my Lord’. 1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 337 He had thrown a new and important light on the true character of these visive sensations. < as lemmas |
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