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Personality. [R.] Coleridge.

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.

One who personifies.

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield.

To personify. [R.] Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.

Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective. Perspective plane, the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; -- distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is ob…

Optically; as through a glass. [R.] You see them perspectively. Shak.

An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.

Discernible. [Obs.] Herbert.

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.

Perspicacity. [Obs.]

The act of looking sharply. [Obs.] Bailey.

An optical glass; a telescope. [Obs.] Crashaw.

The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.

Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. "The purpose is perspicuous." Shak. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ness, n.

The quality or state of being perspirable.

Capable of being perspired. Sir T. Browne.