aperçu

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What is important, then, is the principle of propriety, a neat accord between the figure and the subject, a kind of aperçu.

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  1. A first view; a hasty glance; a rapid survey.
  2. A summary exposition; a brief outline; a sketch. Twenty pages suffice to impart the elements of Chinese writing; and a short aperçu of the literary history of the country is added to the volume. Science, III. 760.
  3. A detached view; an isolated perception of or insight into a subject, as into a system of philosophy. At best Hegelism can be apprehended only by aperçus, and those who try to explain its bottom secrets have not got it. G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 157.

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  1. French, glance, sketch, outline, from aperçu, past participle of apercevoir, perceive, descry, discover: see apperceive.
 

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