quick sighted

quick sighted (comparative more quick sighted or quicker sighted, superlative most quick sighted or quickest sighted)

1. Alternative form of quick-sighted.
   • 1695, [John Locke], The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil, […], →OCLC, page 286:

     And if the Prieſt at any time talked of the Ghoſts below, and a Life after this, it was only to keep Men to their Superſtitious and Idolatrous Rites; Whereby the uſe of this Doctrine was loſt to the credulous Multitude; And its belief to the quicker ſighted, who ſuſpected it preſently of Prieſt-craft.

   • a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 3, page 11:

     But for all that no body, I think, will imagine them deep Naturaliſts, or ſolid Metaphyſicians; no body will deem the quickeſt ſighted amongſt them to have very enlarg’d Views in Ethicks or Politicks, […]

   • 1714 February 15 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Inquiry into the Reasons of the Joy Expressed by a Certain Set of People, upon the Spreading of a Report of Her Majesty’s Death”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVIII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 162:

     Princes read history, as well as subjects. They are quick sighted enough to make inferences to justify, what they are but too much inclined to, the undue exercise of their power.

   • 1854, [Catherine Helen Spence], “The Return of the Diggers”, in Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia during the Gold Fever […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son […], →OCLC, page 125:

     ‘[…] I never can tell what a man is thinking about, if I cannot see the changing expression of his mouth, which those thickets quite conceal,’ said Annie. / ‘You cannot, then, tell by the eyes; your cousin can—at least I fancy so, by some remarks she has made to me,’ said Bell. / ‘O yes! Clara is very quick sighted,’ Annie answered, coldly.