aspect, aspect, aspecte

Sw. & Dan. aspekt; Ger. aspekt, aspect; Fr. aspect; Sp. a spec to Port. a spec to, aspeito; Ital. as pet to; Lat. aspect us = (1) a seeing, view; (2) the sense of sight; (3) (by me to no my) the look, aspect, mien; from aspect us, pa. par. of aspicio adspicio = to look to or at: ad = to, at; specio = to look at, to behold.] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of looking, a glance. "The tradition is no le ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect , and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect aspect striketh a man hoarse."- Bacon : Nat. Hist ., Cent. x., § 924. II. The appearance presented. 1. Of persons: (1.) Gen. Countenance, look, also mien. (Applied to a man, or at least to a living being.) "Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, Milton: P. L., bk. 11. (ii.) Spec . Figuratively : (In the astrological sense.) [B. 2.] "To praise the clear unmatched red and white, Which triumphed in that sky of his delight, Where mortal stars, as bright as heaven's beauties, With pure aspects did him peculiar duties." ". Shakesp.: Tarquin and Lucrece. another Pollio shine, With aspect open, shall erect his head, And round the orb in lasting notes be read." Pope: Moral E ays; Epistle v. 64-66. 2. Of things: (1.) Of material things : The appearance presented by a place; also the adaptation which a building or other station po e es for affording an outlook in any particular direction. (Used with more or le tacit allusion to the astrological sense.) "The whole aspect of the place has been altered."Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. ix. "I have built a strong wall, faced to the south aspect with brick."- Swift . Often in the plural, both with this and other significations. "The aspec's of nature are more varied and impre ive in Alpine regions than elsewhere."- Tyndall : Frag. of Science, 3rd ed., ii 31. (ii.) Of things not e entially material: The appearance presented to the mind instead of to the eye. "The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xviii. "The character, thus formed, has two aspects." Ibid ., ch. xii. IMG:content-0803.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0804.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Her .: The position which an animal occupies with regard to the eye of the spectator. It may be (1) full aspect , that is, full-faced, looking towards the spectator; or (2) pa ant that is, with its side towards him; or (3) of tri an aspect , that is, neither the one nor the other, but between the two. 4. Painting. A double aspect: A single figure representing two or more different objects. ( Glo og. Nova.)