#WordOfTheDay for Monday, January 20, 2014 perspicuous \per-SPIK-yoo-uhs\, adjective: 1. clearly expressed or presented; lucid. 2. perspicacious. This perspicuous presentation makes possible that understanding which consists just. -- Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, 1992 My first memory of Funes is very perspicuous. I can see him on an afternoon in March or February of the year 1884. -- Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan, Funes the Memorious, Ficciones, 1954 Perspicuous stems from the Latin word perspicere meaning to look or see through. It is related to the word inspect.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:57:51 +0000
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