† ˈpervial, a. Obs. rare.
[f. L. pervi-us (see pervious) + -al1.]
Pervious; hence, easily seen through, clear.
| 1595 Chapman Ovid's Banquet Ded., That Poesie should be as pervial as oratory, and plainness her special ornament, were the plain way to barbarism. c 1611 ― Iliad xiv. Comm. 199 Yet all peruiall enough (you may well say) when such a one as I comprehend them. |
Hence † ˈpervially adv. Obs., clearly.
| c 1611 Chapman Iliad ii. Comm. 34 Since a man may peruially (or as he passeth) discerne all that is to be vnderstood. Ibid. xiii. 187 Imagining his vnderstanding Readers eyes more sharpe, then not to see peruially through them. |