visualis

vīsŭālis, e, adj. [visus],

• attained by sight (late Lat.): probatio, Cassiod. Var. 4, 51.—Hence, subst.: vīsŭālĭa, ĭum, n., the power of vision, Theod. Prisc. 4, 2.— Adv.: vīsŭālĭter, visibly (late Lat.), Cassiod. in Psa. 36, 29.

vīsuālis, e (visus), zum Sehen gehörig, radius, Chalcid. Tim. 241 u. 257: probatio, durch Anschauung gewonnen, Cassiod. var. 12, 14, 6. – subst., vīsuālia, ium, n., Sehkräfte, Th. Prisc. 4, 2.

visualis [LL], of or pertaining to (the faculty of) sight or visual perception. b (radius ~is) visual ray (proceeding from the eye to the object seen). perspectiva est scientia que erigitur super figuras ~es, et hec subalternat sibi scientiam que erigitur super figuras quas continent linee et superficies radiose Gros. 72; ea que in celestibus sunt considerantur per instrumenta ~ia Bacon Persp. I 1. 1; ostendentes quomodo a pelliculis cerebri et cute cranii descendunt nervi ~es Ib. I 1. 2; de specie ‥ visus ‥ coartata in pyramide ~i cujus conus nititur in centrum visus Id. MS 176.  b nota quod mira est virtus radiorum ~ium struthionis, qui visu solo ‥ fovet ova sua ‥ . in hac quidem renotatur [? l. denotatur, revocatur] hypocrita, cujus omnia opera visui et inani glorie sunt obnoxia Neckam NR I 50 p. 101; radius ~is ‥ pervenit ad rem visam non secundum rectum incessum sed secundum viam plurium linearum rectarum angulariter conjunctarum Docking 115; de visu et visibili et radio ~i Kilwardby OS 117; omnes radii ~es talis speculationis in eodem puncto concurrunt cum catheto Peckham Persp. II 44; fumus et pulvis ‥ radiorum ~ium aciem hebetarunt R. Bury Phil. 4. 63; triplex ‥ est visio corporalis, sc. directa, refracta, et reflexa: directa, quando radius ~is et radius visibilis sine reflexione aut refraccione ad obstaculum medium commiscentur, ut videndo lucem directe objectam; que quidem visio intuicio solet dici Wycl. Dom. Div. 187.

vīsŭālis, e, de la vue, visuel : Cassiod. Var. 4, 51.