visIbleness

[English visible; -ne .] The quality or state of being visible; visibility. viş-I-bly, *vys-y-bly, adverb. [Eng. visibl ( e ); ly.] 1. In a visible manner; so as to be perceivable by the eye; openly, manifestly, plainly, perceptibly. "By the head we make known more visibly our supplications, our threatenings."-Dryden. (Todd.) 2. Plainly, clearly, evidently, manifestly. " Visibly beneficial to all."- Locke : Human Understand., bk. i., ch. iii. viş-ie, viz-le, s . [Fr. visée an aim, taking a sight at, from viser =to aim, to mark.] [VISE.] 1. The aim taken at an object, as by one about to shoot. 2. A scrutinizing view or look. vis-ion-al (sas zh), a. [English vision, s.; -al.] Pertaining or relating to vision. "The visional interpretation appears to be preferable to the other." - Water land : Works , vi. 228. viş'-ion-ar-i-ne (ş as zh), s . [Eng. visionary ; -ne .] The quality or state of being visionary. vis-ion-ar-ý (s as zh), a . & 8. [English vision ; -ary .] A. As adjective : 1. Of or pertaining to visions; appropriate to or characterized by the appearance of visions. "At the visionary hour Angelic harps are in full concert heard." Thomson: Summer, 556. 2. Existing in imagination only; not real; imaginary; having no real or solid foundation; unsub 3. The knot or sight on the muzzle of a gun by stantial. which aim is taken. Scotch in all its senses. Viş-i-goth, s. [See def.] One of the Western Goths, or that branch of the Gothic tribes which settled in Dacia, as distinguished from the Ostrogoths, or Eastern Goths. [OSTROGOTH.] Viş-i-goth-Ic, adj . [Eng. Visigoth ; -ic.] Of or pertaining to the Visigoths. vision (sas zh), *vis-i-oun, *vys-y-on, *vysion, subst . [Fr. vision = a vision, sight, from Lat. visionem , acc us. of visio =sight, from vis us , pa. par. of video = to see; cogn. with Sanse vid = to know; Goth. & A. S. witan ; Eng. wit , wot .] 1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight. "The intuitive vision of God in the world to come." Hooker : Eccles. Politie , bk. i., § 11. 2 The faculty of seeing; that power or faculty by which we perceive the forms and colors of objects through the sense of sight; sight. "And these pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optick nerves into the brain, are the cause of vision." -Newton: Opticks. 3. That which is seen or perceived by the eye; an object of sight. 4. Specif., that which is seen otherwise than by "Our victories only led us to further visionary prospects."-Swift. 3. Affected by phantoms or fancies; disposed to receive impre ions on the imagination; apt to receive and act on mere fancies or whims, as if they were realities; disposed or given to day-dreaming, fanciful theories, or the like. *4. Spectral. "On the neighboring plain Lay heaps of visionary soldiers slain." B. As substantive: Dryden: Tyrannic Love, i. 1. *1. One who sees visions or unreal sights. 2. One who forms impracticable or quixotic schemes; one given to day-dreaming, fanciful theories, or the like. "Some celebrated writers of our own country, who, with all their good sense and genius, were visionaries on the subject of education."-Knox: Remarks on Grammar Schools . *vis-ioned (sas zh), a . [Eng. vision , s; -ed.] 1. Seen in a vision or dream; formed by the fancy; visionary, spectral. "For them no visioned terrors daunt." Scott . (Ann andale.) 2. Having the power of seeing visions; hence, in the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a super nat spired. ural, prophetic, or imaginary appearance; something seen in a trance, dream, ecstasy, or the like; a phantom, a specter, an apparition. "Upon the foot of this construction, it is supposed that Isaiah in prophetic dream or vision heard God speaking to him (like as St. Peter heard a voice, and saw a vision , while he lay in a trance), and that in idea he transacted all that God so ordered him to do."-Water land: Works, vi. 228. 5. Anything unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy. apparition , the thing that appears. Vision , sign i Vision is the act of seeing or the thing seen; fying a thing seen, is taken for a supernatural exertion of the vision ; apparition refers us to the object seen, which may be true or false, according to the manner in which it presents itself. Joseph was warned by a vision to fly into Egypt; Mary Magdalen was informed of the resurrection by an apparition ; feverish people often think they see visions; timid and credulous people sometimes take trees and posts for apparitions . Strictly speaking, a phantom is a false apparition , or the appearance of a thing otherwise than it really is; thus the ignis-fatuus, or will-o'-the-wisp, is a phan tom . A specter is the apparition of any spiritual being; a ghost is the spirit of a dead person appearing to the living. ( Crabb .) (1) Arc of vision : Astron.: An arc which measures the least distance at which, after sunset, a fixed star or planet emerging from the sun's rays becomes visible. (2) Beatific vision. [BEATIFIC.] (3) Direct (or simple ) vision : Optics: Vision performed by means of rays pa ing directly or in straight lines from the radiant point to the eye. The distance at which objects can be seen with the greatest distinctne varies in different individuals, and in the same individual it is often different in the two eyes. For small objects, such as ordinary print, it is from fourteen to fifteen inches in normal cases. (4) Field of vision : Optics: The same as Field of view (q. v.). (5) Reflected vision: "Oh! not the visioned poet in his dreams So fair, so bright, so wild a shape Hath yet beheld." Shelley: Queen Mab, i. viş-ion-Ist (§aszh), subst. [Eng. vision; -ist.] One who sees or believes he sees visions; a believer in visions. viş-ion-le (ş as zh), a. [Eng. vision; -le .] Destitute of vision; blind. viş-it, *vis-yt, v. t. & i. [Fr. visiter, from Lat. visito to go to see, to visit, freq. of viso =to survey,