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Palpably

Palpable \Pal"pa*ble\, a. [F. palpable, L. palpabilis, fr. palpare to feel, stroke; cf. palpus the soft palm of the hand.]

  1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
    --Shak.

    Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness.
    --Milton.

  2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors. ``Three persons palpable.''
    --P. Plowman.

    [Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable.
    --Shak.

    A hit, A very palpable hit.
    --Shak. (Hamlet) [1913 Webster] -- Pal"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Pal"pa*bly, adv.

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palpably

adv. In a palpable manner; tangibly

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palpably

adv. so as to be palpable; "she was palpably nervous"

Usage examples of "palpably".

I pressed her to my heart, methought hers, which seemed still before, began as if by an involuntary sympathy, palpably and suddenly to throb against my own.

Churches must cease to uphold those conceptions of the superiority of celibacy and virginity which, besides involving grossly materialistic conceptions of those states, are palpably incompatible with that worship of parenthood to which the Churches must and shall now be made to return.

Indeed, Elmo considered that he had learned much from Spalt, whom he deemed to be palpably no ordinary village disciplinarian.

The worshipper of Brahma also has implicit Faith in what seems to us palpably false and absurd.

Their glances met, touching as palpably as a handclasp, reflecting the same consternation.

Spiritually aflame, it was palpably clear, and trembling as if in postcoital meltdown.

Though palpably a radically altered man he was still a commanding figure though carelessly garbed as usual with that look of settled purpose which went a long way with the shillyshallyers till they discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay after placing him upon a pedestal which she, however, was the first to perceive.

Darkness, almost palpably aware of his Regard, appears to withdraw, consciously, to a certain depth below the Atlantick Surface.

Matzerath was right next door, threatening them invisibly but palpably with moribund eels that he brandished like a whip.

On foot his raised head and half-dropped eyelids too palpably assumed superiority.

Though all their flirtations had been carried on on both sides palpably by way of fun, though Frank had told himself ten times a day that his heart was true to Mary Thorne, yet he had an undefined feeling that it behoved Miss Dunstable to be a little in love with him.

The dozen or so civilisations which would eventually go on to form the Culture had, during their separate ages of scarcity, spent vast fortunes to make virtual reality as palpably real and as dismissibly virtual as possible.

Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.

Elise Ashville was too palpably charged with corpuscles and vitamins for that role, and she had not even conceded to the diaphanous nglige which any writer of a certain modern school would have considered a formal necessity for such an occasion.

Seen from below, the storm was charcoal black veined with evil murky green, leaden, and palpably ominous.