conspection

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnspectiō, from cōnspiciō (“to notice, gaze at”).

Noun

conspection (uncountable)

1. Observation with understanding.
   • 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport‎^[1]:

     Because in the Conspection of Objects remote, the Pupil of the Eye is expanded circularly, for the admission of more Rays, and the Chrystalline Humour somewhat retracted toward the Retina Tunica, for the Determination of the Point of Concurse in the same, which otherwise would be somewhat too remote: and on the contrary, in the Conspection of Objects vicine, the Pupil is contracted circularly, and the Chrystalline Lense protruded somewhat outwardly, for the contrary respects.

   • 1825, “On the Necessity and the Means of protecting Needy Genius”, in Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, volume 9, page 362:

     UPON a conspection of the foregoing facts, it appears that the means of relief must embrace the following objects :

   • 1825, The Oriental Herald, and Journal of General Literature:

     Having given us a conspection of the “ long-drawn aisles,” the “ storied windows,” the monuments antique and hodiernal, and the other leonine adjuncts of the fabric, it pleased our conductor to open unto us a case, in' which was deposited the skeleton of a personage who had been strangulated for murder!

   • 1923, Edgar Wallace, Captains of Souls:

     She could not meet his eyes... yet was without discomfort. The praise of his conspection was not human.

   • 1930, F.R. Tennant, Philosophical Theology:

     Narrower kinds of teleological arguments, based on surveys of restricted spheres of fact, are much more precarious than that for which the name of 'the wider teleology' may be appropriate in that the comprehensive design-argument is the outcome of synopsis or conspection of the knowable world.

   • 1976, Earth Law Journal, volume 2, page 24:

     As for the actual conduct of nations on this spaceship earth, instead of conspection one sees a number of competitive international relationships in which issues are viewed from a competitive national and territorial perspective and governed by sovereign self-interest.

   • 1979, Virginia journal of international law - Volume 20, page 325:

     Besides functionalism, there is also the Third World view that an international approach to environmental problems involves a holistic "conspection" that must include the developmental principles inherent in the new economic order.

   • 1984, Franciscan Studies, volume 41, page 382:

     The fourth sentence states that absolute knowledge of the singular remains even after the mind's conspection has ceased. The final sentence of the text makes all clear. When the conspection of the mind has ended, the intellect does not know whether the observed singular exists or not, either here or there, but it does know or remember that the observed singular did exist in such a place at such a time and that it did this or that.

   • 1992, Thomas F. Shea, Flann O'Brien's exorbitant novels, page 154:

     Dalkey looks like an humble settlement which must, a traveller feels, be next door to some place of the first importance and distinction. And it is — vestibule of a heavenly conspection.

   • 2007, Uwe Michael Lang, Ever Directed Towards the Lord, →ISBN:

     This pleading, in and through the cross of Christ, makes us worthy to be heard, and this opening of the mouth therefore takes us through all of this to the divine conspection, the presence of the Presence, into the holy of holies, the sanctuary itself, the heart of the temple, the eternal liturgy of the Son offered to the Father.

   • 2007, Eamon Duffy, “The New Pope And The Liturgy”, in Uwe Michael Lang, editor, Ever Directed Towards the Lord‎^[2]:

     and this opening of the mouth therefore takes us through all of this to the divine conspection

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