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& s. [Fr., from Latin visibilis, from vis us, pa. par. of video = to see; Sp. visible; Ital. visibile.] IMG:content-0542.png:[blocks in formation] Theol.: The Church, as seen by man, not as it appears to God. It includes the whole body of profe ing Christians, some of them regenerate, others unregenerate; the two cla es commingled, as were the wheat and tares mentioned in the parable (Matt. xiii. 24-30). It is distinguished from the Invisible Church, consisting only of the regenerate; but who are worthy of this designation is known only to God. (Cf. 1 Kings xix. 10, 14, 18.) visible-horizon, s. The line that bounds the sight. visible-speech, subst . A term applied by its inventor, Prof. A. Melville Bell, to a system of alpha. betical characters designed to represent every po ible articulate utterance of the organs of speech, each organ and each mode of speech having its appropriate symbol. By means of this system the deaf and dumb are taught to speak.