visive

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English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin visīvus, from Latin vīsus (“sight, seeing”).

Adjective

visive (comparative more visive, superlative most visive)

  1. (now rare) Pertaining to sight or the ability to see; visual.
    • 1665, R Hooke, chapter XXXIX, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. , London: Jo Martyn, and Ja Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, , →OCLC:
      he Infinitely wise Creator has not left the creature without a power of moving the head a little […] so that by these means they are inabled to direct some optick line or other against any object, and by that means they have the visive faculty as compleat as any Animal that can move its eyes.
    • 1709, George Berkeley, “ LXXXVI. The Case of Microscopical Eyes, Consider’d.”, in An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, Dublin: Aaron Rhames, , for Jeremy Pepyat, , →OCLC, pages 97–98:
      Hence it's evident, that vvere our Eyes turned into the Nature of Microſcopes, vve […] ſhou'd be derpiv'd of the foremention'd Advantage vve at preſent receive by the Viſive Faculty; and have left us only the empty Amuſement of Seeing, vvithout any other benefit ariſing from it.

Italian

Adjective

visive

  1. feminine plural of visivo
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