OBVIOUS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Opposing; fronting. [Obs.] To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton.

2.
a.

Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] "Obvious to dispute." Milton.

3.
a.

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope.