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Essaies upon the Five Senses choose

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[UK] R. Brathwait Five Senses Table in Archaica (1815) II v: By that elevating muscle by which it is distinguished from the optic in all other creatures, it [i.e. the eye] is taught to be on that subject only fixed, where it may be wholly and solely satisfied [OED].
at optic, n.
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