Word Meanings - PSEUDOBLEPSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. Forsyth.
Related words: (words related to PSEUDOBLEPSIS)
- FALSENESS
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his - VISIONARY
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given - IMAGINARY
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity - SIGHTLY
1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place. - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - FALSETTO
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. - VISION
The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That - SIGHT-HOLE
A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak. - VISIONARINESS
The quality or state of being visionary. - DEPRAVITY
The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn. - SIGHTED
Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like. - VISIONLESS
Destitute of vision; sightless. - DEPRAVINGLY
In a depraving manner. - SIGHTING
from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot. - DEPRAVEDLY
In a depraved manner. - FALSE
Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing, - SIGHTLESS
1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak. - VISIONIST
A visionary. - DEPRAVER
One who deprave or corrupts. - SIGHT-SEER
One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities. - PEEP SIGHT
An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight. - HALF-SIGHTED
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon. - MISDIVISION
Wrong division. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - HIGH-SIGHTED
Looking upward; supercilious. Shak. - PROVISIONARY
Provisional. Burke. - PROVISIONAL
Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty. - INVISION
Want of vision or of the power of seeing. Sir T. Browne. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment. - DULL-SIGHTED
Having poor eyesight. - IMPROVISION
Improvidence. Sir T. Browne.