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adv. - In a clear and lucid manner.

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  • Penmanship was almost a fine art in colonial days, the one indispensable accomplishment of a school teacher; and he was often hired to exercise it in writing a name...
  • Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and sensibly.
  • The recent improvements have been perspicuously stated by Mr. Herapath, of
  • He read to me part of a tale never put into the ordinary edition, translated into English tersely and perspicuously.
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