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perspicuously

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per·spic·u·ous  (pr-spky-s)
adj.
1. Clearly expressed or presented; easy to understand: perspicuous prose.
2. Expressing oneself clearly and effectively: a perspicuous lecturer.
[From Latin perspicuus, from perspicere, to see through; see perspicacious.]
per·spicu·ous·ly adv.
per·spicu·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.perspicuously - in a clear and lucid manner; "this is a lucidly written book"
limpidly, lucidly, pellucidly


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"I write,"' his mother went on, reading very perspicuously and precisely, '"from the chair, to which I shall probably be confined for some hours.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
I must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeply interested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I had done, that they were a sort of vegetable.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
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