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Manifest   /mˈænəfˌɛst/   Listen
adjective
Manifest  adj.  
1.
Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden. "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight." "That which may be known of God is manifest in them." "Thus manifest to sight the god appeared."
2.
Detected; convicted; with of. (R.) "Calistho there stood manifest of shame."
Synonyms: Open; clear; apparent; evident; visible; conspicuous; plain; obvious. Manifest, Clear, Plain, Obvious, Evident. What is clear can be seen readily; what is obvious lies directly in our way, and necessarily arrests our attention; what is evident is seen so clearly as to remove doubt; what is manifest is very distinctly evident. "So clear, so shining, and so evident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye." "Entertained with solitude, Where obvious duty erewhile appeared unsought." "I saw, I saw him manifest in view, His voice, his figure, and his gesture knew."


verb
Manifest  v. t.  (past & past part. manifested; pres. part. manifesting)  
1.
To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit. "There is nothing hid which shall not be manifested." "Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not."
2.
To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
Synonyms: To reveal; declare; evince; make known; disclose; discover; display.


noun
Manifest  n.  (pl. manifests)  
1.
A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto. (Obs.)
2.
A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse; as, to inspect the ship's manifest.





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"Manifest" Quotes from Famous Books



... where none was apparent before, we experience at once the true poetical effect; but this effect is referable to the harmony alone, and not in the least degree to the truth which merely served to render the harmony manifest. ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... and melodrama. Music seems to be where painting was in the time of Courbet; she is drifting through complex intellectualism and a brilliant, exasperating realism, to arrive, I hope, at greater purity.[26] Contemporary painting is the one manifest triumph of the young age. Not even the oldest and wisest dare try to smile it away. Those who cannot love Cezanne and Matisse hate them; and they not only say it, they shriek it. It is not surprising, then, ...
— Art • Clive Bell
... require you to manifest to-day all the qualities which I have hitherto prized in ...
— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... deficiencies in the knowledge of her intrinsic worth and her real goodness of heart. With a different husband, and under different circumstances, she might have appeared to greater advantage, but there could not be a more striking contrast than was manifest in this dignified, grand-looking man and this plain, common-looking little woman. And the strangest of it all was, the General did not seem at all aware of it. She was his ideal of every thing that was good, and loving, and true, and, utterly unconscious of any external deficiencies, ...
— 'Three Score Years and Ten' - Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other - Parts of the West • Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve
... the wet gleaming sands a graceful flying figure, until the little waves played and purred about her ankles. Her action was symbolic, born of the gay worship welling up within her, a giving of herself to the shining infinite of Nature as just now manifest—things divine and eternal glimmering through at her—in this fair hour of solitude ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet


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