All 4 Uses
perceptible
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Selected Tales, by Poe
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- There were the same luxurious smoothness of surface, the same scarcely perceptible tendency to the aquiline, the same harmoniously curved nostrils speaking the free spirit.†
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- I strained my vision to detect any motion in the corpse—but there was not the slightest perceptible.†
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- There was now a partial glow upon the forehead and upon the cheek and throat; a perceptible warmth pervaded the whole frame; there was even a slight pulsation at the heart.†
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- Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)