vision, n.                                                           Oxford’s English Dictionary

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1. a. Something which is apparently seen otherwise than by ordinary sight; esp. an appearance of a prophetic or mystical character, or having the nature of a revelat-ion, supernaturally presented to the mind either in sleep or in an abnormal state. See beatific vision: see beatific a.

     b. Without article (Cf avision 2.)

     c. A mental concept of a distinct or vivid kind; an object of mental contemplation, esp. of an attractive or fantastic character, a highly imaginative scheme or anticipation.

     d. A person in a dream or a trance 

     e. transf. A person, scene, etc. of unusu-al beauty. (Cf. dream n.2 3b.)


2. a. The action or fact of seeing or contemplating something not actually present to the eye; mystical or supernatural insight or foresight. 

              
    b. Ability to conceive what might be attempted or achieved, esp. in the realm of politics; statesmanlike foresight.

 

3. a. The action of seeing with the bodily   eye; the exercise of the ordinary faculty of  sight, or the faculty itself. Also transf. (quot. 1854).

     b. An instance of seeing; a look.


4. A visage or vizard. Obs. rare.


5. A thing actually seen; an object of sight.

 

6. The visual part of a television broadcast, television images collectively; the transmiss-ion or reproduction of such images; also,  the signal corresponding to them.


7. attrib. and Comb.  a. gen., as vision- field, -literature, machinery, -monger, poem, -world; vision-haunted, -seeing, -seeking, -struck adjs.vision quest N.   Amer., the attempt to achieve a vision tradi-tionally undertaken by mature men of the Plains Indian peoples, usu. through fasting or self-torture; vision splendid, the dream of some glorious imagined time; vision- telephone = videophone s.v. video-.


   b. In sense 6; spec. vision-mixer, a person whose job is to switch from one camera to another in television broadcasting or recording; so vision-mixing vbl. n.

From the editor...

      The sun had not risen and set one day since the close of Homecoming 2008 and the emails were already filling my inbox.  It would seem that Fort Myers Beach met the Boyd Zone last month as folks embraced each others’ company and each others’ cranials. 

 

     It seems the Irish were busy as well, across the pond, as the CDS Institute kicked off its first overseas CPD hosting a significantly diverse international crowd representing a half dozen nations.  Doctor Augustine summed it up pretty well by posting in the chat room;

 

  “Ok...can it be said that we're all just a bit excited about the present and the future of Bio Cranial!  Yee-Haw! “

 

     Those of you south of the Mason Dixon know that “yee-haw” is colloquially synonymous with affirmative...to the tenth power of course.

 

    This month’s issue is focused on jobs well done and good times had by all.   You’ll hear from some usual suspects, see some old faces and some new ones, and see the master in action over in the land of the leprechauns.  And just to change things up a tad, I gave someone else the keys to the Library.  So I’ll see y’all next month. 

 

Enjoy,

 

Bill Jackson

 

June  2008

Volume II    Issue  6

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