Vision

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·v That which is seen; an object of sight.

II. Vision ·v The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

III. Vision ·vt To see in a vision; to Dream.

IV. Vision ·v Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

V. Vision ·v Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.

VI. Vision ·v The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.

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