visive
visive adjective: pertaining to sight or the ability to see; visual.
Adjective
visive (comparative more visive, superlative most visive)
- Pertaining to sight or the ability to see; visual.
- [T]he Infinitely wise Creator has not left the creature without a power of moving the head a little […] so that by these means they are inabled to direct some optick line or other against any object, and by that means they have the visive faculty as compleat as any Animal that can move its eyes.1665, R[obert] Hooke, chapter XXXIX, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to...
- Hence it's evident, that vvere our Eyes turned into the Nature of Microſcopes, vve […] ſhou'd be derpiv'd of the foremention'd Advantage vve at preſent receive by the Viſive Faculty; and have left us only the empty Amuſement of Seeing, vvithout any other benefit ariſing from it.1709, George Berkeley, “[Section] LXXXVI. The Case of Microscopical Eyes, Consider’d.”, in An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, Dublin: […] Aaron Rhames, […], for Jeremy [i.e., Jeremiah] Pepyat...
Forms of visive
| comparative | more visive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most visive |
Origin of visive
From post-classical Latin visīvus, from Latin vīsus (“sight, seeing”).
Questions about visive
- What does visive mean?
- Visive means pertaining to sight or the ability to see; visual.
- What part of speech is visive?
- Visive is an adjective.
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