All 4 Uses of
perceptible
in
Moby Dick
- And, by and by, it came to pass, that he was almost continually in the air; but, as yet, for all that he said, or perceptibly did, on the at last sunny deck, he seemed as unnecessary there as another mast.†
Chpt 28-30perceptibly = in a manner that is capable of being noticed
- But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.†
Chpt 40-42 *perceptibility = capability of being noticed
- No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.†
Chpt 58-60perceptible = capable of being noticed
- The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.†
Chpt 67-69perceptibly = in a manner that is capable of being noticed
Definition:
capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough