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VISIBILIZE.
i6t6 BfLLOKAR Emg. Expcs,^ Visibilities the abilitie or
powr« of seeing. 1641 Milton CA. (7(7v^. v. Wks. 1851 III.
lao Why they choose lo live by custome and catalogue, or
as S. Paul saiih by sight and visibility, rather then by faith.
1733 \V. Ellis Chiltern and I'alc farm. 42 The Fibers of
Corn or Trees. ., that in Clays and Loams have firm and
holding Bottoms, and will lie two or three Years to visibility.
Vi-Sibilize,
I', rare-', [t. next+-iZE.] ?v/?.
To make visible.
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1899 S. L. Wilson Theol. Mod. Lit. 243 Its spirit visibilisea
and exemplified itself in priests, rabbis, scribes.
Visible (vi-zib'l), a. and $b. Forms : 4 visibil^e,
4-6 visyble, 5-6 vysyble, 4- visible (5
visibal, viaebill, 6 viscible, Sc, vissabiU). [a.
OF. visibU (i2th c. ; F. visible --= Sp. visid/ey Pj(.
visively It. visibile)y or ad. L. vtsibilis f. vis- ppl.
stem of videre to see]
A. adj. 1. Capable of being seen ; that by its
nature is an object of sight; perceptible by the
sense of sight.
Aiuo Hampole Psalter ix. i Bot i sail loue Jjc in all Y\
werkis, and tell all J>i wondirs : ^at is bath b^t ere sen &
)?at ere noght sene, visibiles & invisibils. Ihid. xxxiv. 3
T^lultiply vengaunce agayns my foes visibils & invisibils.
c 1383 in Eng, Hist, Rev. Oct. {1911) 744 The sacrament of
^ auteer which is whi^t & round visible & palpable. 1426
AuDELAY Poems (Percy Soc.) 22 Use vertuys, and leve
visibal vayne and vanetc. 1483 Caxton Cato Cjb, One
onely god. .the whyche hath myght and preemynence upon
alle ihynges vysyble and unuj-syble. c 153a Du Wes Introd.
Fr. in I'alsgr. 920 Colour is lyght incorporate in a body
visyble pure & clene. 1550 Covkrdale tr. Cah'ins Treat.
Sacram. Pref. A ij b, He was neuer visyble to the mortall
eye, andyet wyll they make him appere at euerie knaues requeste
that wyl-.paye theyr..shote. 1597 Hooker Eccl.
P0I. V. IviiL § I It was of necessitle that words, .should be
added vnto visible elements. x6oz B. Jonson Poetaster v.
ii, A humane soulc made visible in life. 1651 Hobbes
Leviath. i. x. 46 Put some eminent and visible mark upon
the Crest of their Helmets. 1667 Milton P, L. \. 62 Yet
from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible
Serv'd only to di^scover sights of woe. a x'j%x Prior Ess,
Opinion F 2 All Visible and Audible objects are properly
within their Connoissance. 1764 Reid Inquiryy\. § 8 The
mathematical consideration of visible figure, which we shall
call the geometry of visibles. 1803 Imison^'c/. ^ Art I. i
Some sorts of matter are visible, or capable of being seen.
1851 Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. x (1876) 124 The visible
world presents a djffereirt aspect to each individual man.
1871 Tyndall Fragm. Sd. (1879) I. li. 46 The sun s invisible
rays far transcend the visible ones in heating power.
trans/. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. ix. 36 Painters
who are the visible representers of things.. are not inculp.
able herein.
b. Of actions, processes, etc.
1560 Daus tr. Slcidane's Comm. 221 Of baptisme, which
they saye is a visible and an outward sygne. 1615 T. Adams
Txvo Sonnes 69 Onely service hath neither ease nor concealment
allotted to it, because it consists in a visible action.
1653 W. Ramesey Astral. Restored 2\^ [It] denoteth such
accidents as are visible in this World. 1664 Jer. Taylor
Dissaus. Popery \. 5 I'his method is the best, the most certain,
visible and tangible. 178J J. Brown Vieiu Nat. ^
Rev. Relig. IV. iii. 362 The Holy Ghost in a visible manner
descended upon him at baptism. 1878 Stewart &
Tait Unseen Univ. lit. § 114. 127 The conversion of visible
energy into heat.
C. Of associations, organizations, etc., spec, of
the Church (see Church sb. 4 c).
1590 R. Alison {title), A Plaine Confutation of a Treatise
of Brownisme, . .entitled, a Description of the Visible
Church. 1651 C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. L 109 For
Visibility, it is granted that ordinarily the Church is
visible. I.e. that there is a visible company of such as profes-v. in Enthus. Tri., etc.
(1656) 77 For it is alike easie to see visibles without eyes, as
to see invisibles with eyes. aiSj^ Traherne J'oet. IVks,
(1903) 18 All that in visibles is good Or pure, or fair, or unaccurst.
1721 R. Keith tr. T. a Keinpis, Solil. Soul xii.
1865 A. Melville Bell {titlc\ Visible Speech : a new fact
demonstrated. 1883 Science I. 474/1 .An important imme.
diaie use might be made of a few of the Visible-speech
symbols, x8l^ Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 379/2 Each
letter of the Visible .Speech Alphabet.. is a picture of the
vocal organs placed in the proper position for producing the
sound indicated.
t e. Similar or comparable in appearance io
something. Obs~^
1411-SO Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 290 Eke of her cyen J>e
lokys moste horible To a furneis the stremvs wer visyble.
2. That may be mentally perceived or observed
200 When thou . . beholdest the visibles of this whole Creation.
1748 Richardson Clarissa {181 1) III. 248 That the
most charming woman on earth.. can excel the meanest
in the customary visibles only. 1871 W. H. Gillespie
Argt. Being ^ Attrib. Absolute One in. § 2 (ed. 5) 54
Narrow is their horizon : within it, themselves the only
visibles. 1872 Ibid. (ed. 6) 188 The things which are seen,
were not made of phenomenal visibles. 1895 Zangwill
Master HI. i. 277 The flux of centuries, the visibles of Art,
the invisibles of Religion.
2. TAe visible, that which is visible, esp. the
clearly or readily evident or perceptible ; apparent,
manifest, obvious.
In earlier use sometimes passing into the sense ' very
great, eminent, etc'
a 1613 Sir T. Ovkbbury A /K//^, etc. (1638) 95 His courting
language, visible bawdy jests. 167a Baxter BagsfCxxv's
Scand. ii. 16 His next subject.. is one of the visiblest
lyes that ever I saw written by a man. 1676 D'Uhfey
Mtite. Fickle iv. ii, *Tis above the common rate of wonders,
and doubtless portends some visible Calamity that threatens
the Nation. 1710 I,uttrell Brief Pel. (1857) VI. 597 The
majority being so visible, as at least two to one,_ they dcdiaed
insisting thereon. 1764 Harmer Observ. \. § 15. 38
visible world.
174a Young Nt. Th. vi. 246 The visible and present are
for brutes, A slender portion I and a narrow bound ! 1836
J. Gilbert Clir, Atonem. iv. (1852) 102 In hisoperationsm
the material universe, God has seen fit.. to make known to
us the invisible by the visible. 1851 Mrs. Browning Casa
Guidi JVind. 1. 1150 The last chain-link By which he had
drawn from Natures visible The fresh well-water,
Vi'Sibleness. [f. prcc. -*--ness.] The quality
of being visible ; visibility.
1581 W. FuLKE in Confer. 11. (1584) I ij, There was a
time when visiblenes was no note of the Church. 1605 A.
WoTioN Anrm. Pop. Articles 14 We easily grant a per-
VISIGOTHIC.
petuall continuance of the church, though we denie a necessity
of visiblenesse. 1620 T. Granger Div. Logike 66 Also
visiblenesse, touchablenesse, which are inseparable. 1727
Bailey (vol. II). 1842 Manning Serm. (1848) 1. xiv. 195
We have yet to regain the visibleness and consciousness of
unity. Ibid. xxvi. 392 There is an inwardness and a retirement
about it {i.e. the Church] even in its visibleness. 1890
spectator \\ Jan. 45/2 The owners feel., as if the visibleness
of their wealth constituted a danger.
Visibly (vi'zib'li), fli/z'. Forms: 4~5visibely,
5 visibiUy, 5-6 vysybly, 6 visybly, 5- visibly
(7 vissiblie) j also 5 visablelyche. [f. prec,
1. In a visible manner (f or form) ; so as to be
visible to the eye or sight.
Passing insensibly into next.
C1380 WvcLiF^f/. Wks. III. 522 patsame body and blood
invisibily, and not t>e same visibely. c 1400 Macndev.
(Roxb.) xvii, 79 f>ai growe ilk a 5ere visibilly, so \2X J)e
smale waxez grete. C1420 Chron. Vilod. 2141 As Jjus visablelyche
to hurre modur he dude aper. 1484 Caxton
F'ables of Al/ouce xii, 'i'he goddesse Venus vysybly shewed
her self to ine. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 124 b,
Somiyme as it were an aungell of lyght, somtyme visybty,
somtyme fantastically. 1591 Shaks. Two Gent. 11. vii. 4The
Table wherein all my thoughts are visibly Character 'd and
engrau'd. 1612 W. Colson Gen. Tresury Advt. A ijj b,
The other faults escaped in printing, or figures not visibly
printed are .. corrected with the pen. 1617 J. Taylor
(Water P.) Obs. ^ Trav. fr. Land, to Hamburgh Wks.
(1630) III. 87/2 If it were possible that the hand of mortall
men.. could visibly set forth the magnificent glory of the
immortal Creator. 1736 Butler Anal. 1. vii. Wks. 1874 I.
145 A moral scheme of government then is visibly estab.
lished. 1781 CowFER Truth 390 Solyma's interior shrine,
Where .. Dwelt visibly the light-creating God. 1817
Shellev Rev. Islam xu. xxxiii. 6 Down that mighty
stream, .The boat fled visibly— three nights and days. 1825
Scott Betrothed vi. The mouth visibly arranged itself into
a smile of inexpressible sweetness. 1857 ^ • K.. Loftls
Trav. Chaliiiea Sf Susiana 270 Traces of which were still
visibly adhering to many of the tablets.
2. So as to be clearly evident, manifest, or perceptible
; to an extent which can be (readily) seen
or observed; evidently, plainly; manifestly, ob-
viously.
1631 Gouge Gods Ai'towswx. §81. 337 God hath oft visibly
shewed himselfe by extraordinary meanes to fight for his.
1647 Clarendon Hist. lieb. i. § q The Envy., was visibly
the cause of the Murthcr. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. i. iii.
17 God, having.. made the Practice thereof, .visibly beneficial
to all, with whom the vertuous Man has to do. 1713
Berkeley llylas ^ Phil. i. Wks. 1871 J. 282 It being too
visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an
unperceiving Substance. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe)
278, I saw my Deliverance indeed visibly put into my
Hands. 1839 James Louis A'/V, III. 308 A war which
had been visibly overhanging them for more than two
years. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 400 The cardinals
were visibly afraid of the position which had been taken
by the French king. 1885 'Mrs. Alexander' At Boy iv,
Lambert was visibly relieved, and his daughter reflected her
father's mood.
t 3. By actual sight. Obs.-^
2600 E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 314 He cast anchor at
Saint Sebastian, beginning visiblie to linde, that the Hand
was no lesse fortified then had beene described vnto them.
Visie, var. Vizy Sc Visier, var. Vizier.
tVisiere. Obs.~^ In 5 vyslere. [a, OF.
visiere : see Visor j^.'] A visor or vizard.
1485 Caxton Chas. Ct. 226 Tofore the Sarasyns that were
on horsback they had ordeyned men on fote whyche had
vysieres counterfeyled all black & rede.
Visigoth. (vi*zig.?Jj). [ad. late L. Visigoth-its,
usually in pi. Visigotki (late Gr. OvKTiyorOoi) ; the
contrast with Ostrogothi (^Ostrogoth} has suggested
that the first element is to be taken as
meaning * West \]
1. A member of that branch of the Gothic race
which entered Roman territory towards the end of
the fourth century and subsequently established a
kingdom in Spain, oveithrown by the Moors in
711-2; a West-Goth. Chiefly in//.
1647 Cottekell Dnvila's IHst. France 1. 1. 4 The famous
incursions of. .the Visigoths,, .and the Longbeards. 1763
Smollett Trav. x, This amphitheatie [at Nismes] was
fortified as a citadel by the Visigoths. 1780 Encycl. Brit.
(ed. 2) V. 3349/2 The Romans distin^juisbed the Goths into
two classes, the Ostrogoths and Visigoths.. .The Visigoths
settled in Spain in the time of the Emperor Honorius. 1841
W. Spalding Italy ^ It. Isl. I. 106 The West Goths
(Visigoths), .were followed across the Alps in 405 by a new
army of the same nation. 1867 E. F. Bowden tr. Fathers
Desert 258 Julian was by birth a Visigoth, and had fallen
into slavery through the fortune of war. 1889 J. B. Bury
Hist. Later Rovi. Emp. ii. i. I. 64 The event which at
length brought him into contact with Stilicho was the rising
of the Visigoths.
2. trattsf. An uncivilized or barbarous person.
Cf. Goth 2.
1749 H. Walpoi.e Lett. (1846) II. 307 He.. had entirely
forgot what Visigoths his countrymen are. 1764 Foote
Patron II. 47 Sir Thomas. She [a careless housemaid]
merits impaling. Oh, the Hun! Dactyl. The Vandal!
All. The Visigoth.
VisigOthic Cvizigf?*^ik). [f. prec. + -IC.] Of
or belonging to the Visigoths.
1788 Encyci. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 496/1 With regard to the
alphabets derived from the Latin, the Lomhardic relates to
the manuscripts of Italy; the Visigothic to those of Spain.
1818 Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 278 Especially as regards
the Visigothic and Burgundian partitions. 1855 Kincsley
IVestw. Ho 1 ix, He was an exceedingly tall and graceful