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perspicil

perspicil noun: an optical glass; a telescope.

Noun

perspicil (plural perspicils)

  1. (obsolete) An optical glass; a telescope.
    • Chronology
      (Sharp-sighted as the eagle's eye, that can
      Out-stare the broad-beam'd Day's meridian)
      Will have a perspicil to find her outa. 1649, Richard Crashaw, On the Frontispiece of Isaacson's Chronology

Forms of perspicil

pluralperspicils

Origin of perspicil

From Latin perspicilla, from perspicere (“to look through”).

Questions about perspicil

What does perspicil mean?
Perspicil means an optical glass; a telescope.
What part of speech is perspicil?
Perspicil is a noun.
What is the plural of perspicil?
The plural of perspicil is perspicils.

Words near perspicil in the dictionary

  1. perspicaciousness
  2. perspicacities
  3. perspicacity
  4. perspicacy
  5. perspicience
  6. perspicil
  7. perspicils
  8. perspicuities
  9. perspicuity
  10. perspicuous
  11. perspicuously

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