Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pervious: transparent; clear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Pervious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
pervious
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Examples
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But that Poesy should be as pervial as oratory and plain - ness her special ornament, were the plain way to barbarism, and to make the ass run proud of his ears, to take away strength from lions, and give camels horns.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968
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“pervial” and the obscure, the secular and the sacred.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968
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