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Personize
(Per"son*ize) v. t. To personify. [R.]
Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. Personnel
(||Per`son`nel") n. [F. See Personal.] The body of persons employed in some public service,
as the army, navy, etc.; — distinguished from matériel.
Perspective
(Per*spec"tive) a. [L. perspicere, perspectum, to look through; per + spicere, specere, to
look: cf. F. perspectif; or from E. perspective, n. See Spy, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. 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 oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called oblique
perspective; when parallel to that face, parallel perspective. — Perspective shell (Zoöl.), any shell of
the genus Solarium and allied genera. See Solarium.
Perspective
(Per*spec"tive), n. [F. perspective, fr. perspectif: cf. It. perspettiva. See Perspective,
a.]
1. A glass through which objects are viewed. [Obs.] "Not a perspective, but a mirror." Sir T. Browne.
2. That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." Goldsmith.
3. The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them
as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aërial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness
or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of
color, etc. Ruskin. 4. The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede
from the eye; — called also linear perspective.
5. A drawing in linear perspective.
Isometrical perspective, an inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction
of the diagonal of a cube. — Perspective glass, a telescope which shows objects in the right position.
Perspectively
(Per*spec"tive*ly) adv.
1. Optically; as through a glass. [R.]
You see them perspectively. Shak. 2. According to the rules of perspective.
Perspectograph
(Per*spec"to*graph) n. [L. perspectus (p. p. of perspicere to look through) + - graph.]
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.
Perspectography
(Per`spec*tog"ra*phy) n. The science or art of delineating objects according to the
laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.
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