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Show PE PHE We have perfpeftive houfes; where we mak demenftrations of all lights and radiations; an out of things uncoloured and tranfparent, weca Bacon reprefent unto you all feveral colours PERSPICA'CIOUS.adj. [per/picax, Lat. Quickfighted; fharp of fight t is as nice an as it can b tender in feeling South perfpicacious and quick in feeing Perspica'crousness. z. /. [from perQuicknels of fight Jpicacious. Perspica'ciTY. #n. f. [perfpicacité, Fr. Quicknefs of fight He that laid the foundations of the. earth canno be excluded the fecrecy of the mountains ; nor ca ity of thof there any thing efcape the per wer eyes, whic before light an op in whof Brown ticks there is no opacity Perspi'cIENCE. #. f. [ perfpiciens, Lat. Diét The a& of looking fharply Pe'rspiciv. k.f. [perfpicilinm, Lat.] glafs through which things are viewed an optick glafs. Little ufed Let truth b Ne'er fo far diftant, yetchronology Sharp-fighted as the eagle's eye, that ca Out-flare the broad-beam'd day's meridian Will have a perfpicil to find her out And through the night of error and dark doubt Difcern the dawn of truth's eternal ray As when the rofy morn buds into day The perfpicil, as well as the needle Glanwville's Scepfis habitable world larged th Crafbaw hath en Perspicu'iry. #n. f. [ per/picuité, French from per/picuous. 1, Tranfparency; tranflucency neity 2 Clearnef to the mind; eafinefs to b from obfcurity o utiderftood; freedo ambiguity The verfes containing precepts, have not f Dryden much need of ornament as of perfpicuity . Perfpicuity-confifts in the ufing of proper term for the thoughts; which a man would have paf from his own mind into that of another's. Lacke PERSPI'CUQUS. adj. [ per/picuus, Lat. 1. Tranfparent; clear; fuch as may b feeti through ; diaphanous; tranflucent not opake As contrar even the fam caufes produce the like effe@s, f proceed from black and white; fo the clear andpe;fpicuous body effecteth white, an that white a black Peacham 2. Clea to the underftanding fcure; no not ob ambiguous The purpofe is perfpicuons even as fubftance ‘Whofe grofinefs little charaéters fum up Shakefp All this is fo perfpicuous, {o undeniable, that need not be over induftriousin the proo of it. Sprazt Persei'cvousLy. adwv. [from perfpicuClearly; not obfcurely ous. The cafe is no fooner made than refolved ; if i be made not enwrapped, but plainly.and per/picuoufly Bacon Persri'cuousnEiss cuous. #. J [from per/pi Clearnefs ; freedo fro ob fcurity; tranfparence; diaphaneity Perspi'RABLE. adj. [from perfpire. 1. Such as may be emitted by the cuticular pores In an animal under a-courfe of hard labour aliment too vaporous or perfpirable will fubjet i to too ftrong a perfpiration, debility, and fudde Arbuthrot on Aliments death 2. Perfpiring; emitting perfpiration, No proper not upon the palms of the hand Hair comet or foles of the feet, which are parts more perpirable: and children are' not hairy, for that thei Bacon {kins are mott perfpirable That this attraétion is performed by effluviums is plain and granted by moft; for cleétricks wil not commonly attrad, unlefs they become perfpirBrozon able Prrspira'TioN. z. f. [from perfpire. Excretion by the cuticular pores Infenfible ger[piration is the laft and moft perfec a&ion of animal digettion POTCS felf wa ing's emand, (g 's the author o principal perfucder of thy counfel He foon is moy' Water, milk, whey, taken without much exercife, fo as to make them perfpire, relax the belly Arbutbuot 7o PERSTRI'NGE. @. a. [ perfiringo, Lat. To graze upon ; to glance upon. DifZ Persua'paeLE. adj. [from perfuade. Such as may be perfuaded 70 PERSUA'DE. w. a. [ perfuaden, Lat perfuader, French. 1. 'To bring to any particular opinion Bacn By fuch perfuaders as are held upright Bunger and thirft at once, - Dap Pow'rful perfuaders I quicken' at the feen O o that ail Sring fruit, urg'¢ d me fo keen. . Mif PERSUA'SIBLE. adj. [ perfuafibils1s5 ]l)g,fi[afiége I' b Fr. from Pperfuadeo, Latin influenced by perfuafion It‘makes us apprehend our ow intereft in ¢ obedience, makes us tra@able and Pperfuafi le coa trary to that brutifh frubbornnef of the ho',(e auc mule; which the Pfalmift reproaches JSible. 'Th by perfuafion Persua'ston Government of the T PersuA'SIBLENESS 2. To be excreted by the fkin people, but make them concefve by the by nefs of delivery of the kin Arburhnot on Aliments [from per/pire. adj Persp1'RATIVE Performing the aé& of perfpiration Zo PERSPI'RE. @w. un. [ per/piro, Latin. 1. To perform excretion by the cuticula qualit z. 7. /. [from P"}iz of being flexibl [perfuafion, French from per/uafus, Latin. it 1. The att of perfuading; the ad of ip fluencing by expoftulation ; the aft o gaining or attempting the paffions If't prove thy fortune Polydore, to congquer For thou haft all the arts of fine perfuafion Truft me an let me kno thy love's fuceefs Otawag in his ow Romans z. The ftate of being perfuaded; opinion We ate perfuaded better things of you, an things that accompany falvation. Hebreavs, vi. 9 if the general perfuafion of all men does fo accoun Let ever mind ma be fully perfuade Joy over them that are perfuaded to falvation diapha As for diaphaneity and perfpicuity, it enjoyet that moft eminently, as having its earthy an falinous parts fo exaétly refolved, that its body i Brown left imporoys PUE Let 2 ma 2. Efdras, vii be ever fo well perfuaded of the ad vantages of virtue, yet, till he hungers and thirft after righteoufnefs, his will will not be determine to any action in purfuit of this confefled grea Locke themfelves, tha good Me thould ferioufly perfuad they have here no abiding place; but are only i Wake their paffage to the heavenly jerufalem 2. To influence by argument or expoftulation. Perfuafion feems rather apphcable to the pafiions; and argument 10 th reafon ; but this is nat always obferved Philoclea's beauty not only perfuaded, but f perfuaded as all hearts muft yield : Pamela's beaut ufed violence an fuch as no heart could refift Sidwey They that were with Simon, being led wit covetoufnefs, were perfuaded for money. 2 Macs x To fit crofs-leg'd, or with our fingers pe€tinated is accounted bad, and friends will perfuade us fro i How incongruous would it be for tician to perfuade with eloquence to uf able infinuations and intreatics that h vail with his hearers to believe tha three make fix Browen mathemiaall imaginmight prethree an Wilkins T fhould be glad, if I could perfuade him t write fuch another critick on any thing of mine for when he condemns any of my poems, h makes the worid have a better opinion of them D/:ydf)l 3. To inculcate by argument or expoftulation To children, afraid of vain images, we perfuad confidence by making them handle and look neare fuch things Taylor 4. To weat by perfuafion fpeech not in ufe mod o Twenty merchants have all perfuaded with him But none can drive him from the envious ple Shakefgeare Of forfeiture Persua'per. 7. /. [from perfuade.] On who influences by perfuafion; an importunate advifer The earl, fpeaking in that imperious languag wherein the king had wiritten, did not irtitate th The mof certain.token of evident goodnefsis i Hooker You are abus'd in too bold a perfuafion. Shakefp _ When we have np other certainty of being in th right, but our own gerfhaffons that we are fo; thi may often be but making one error the gage fo another Government of the Tongue The obedient and the men of prattice fhall rid upon thofe clouds, and triumph over their prefen imperfe@ions; till perfuafion pafs into knowledge an knowledg advance int affurance, and a come at length to be completed in the beatifit South vifion Persva'sive. adj. [perfuafif, French Having the powero from perfuade. perfuading; having influence on th paflions In prayer, we do ot fo much refpect what pre cepts art delivereth, touching the method of perJuafiwe utterance in the prefence of great men, what doth mioft avail to our owa edification in piety and godly zeal Hualer Let Martias refume his farther difconrfe,as wel for the per/uafive as for the confult, tou.chmg_tht} means that may conduce unto the enterprize. Bac the weight and fitnefs of th Notwithflandin and the light of man's in arguments to perfuade tolle@ to meet this perfuafive evidence wit fuit th‘freb me wer no foilo ed afien n affent abl aually perfuaded Soutb PErsUuA'sIVELY. adv I fuc [from ffl"fi'"fiw‘ a manner as to perlua'de The ferpent with m Pc‘i:/-ua_fi-t'f{y hath fo prevailtd that Mi m} Have alfo tafted m;l f canno theire tate upo liv wh Man as tell a ftory, muc lefs fpeak clearly 33&?['{'.{: fively in any bufinefs PERSUA SIVENESS. 7./. [fromP"'fime" Influence on the paffions he WOI'I o fuccef fulnef An opinion of th a purpofe of underfoun being as necefary t consOM o t - taking it, as ;either . the author enc or the perfuafivenefs of Promxfes, o8 ?l,::!‘gne }flk. menaces can be PErsyUASORY Hammend's Funda [perfuaforits adj L w p th vi jH d u r p fro erfuade Neither is this perfuafory Broso PERT |