Adjective

(en adjective)

(anatomy) Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of the body; splanchnic.

* 1875 , , Insectivorous Plants , ch. 6:

Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad.

* 1914 , , The Dream Doctor , ch. 22 The X-Ray "Movies":

"I can focus the X-rays first on the screen by means of a special quartz objective which I have devised. Then I take the pictures. Here, you see, are the lungs in slow or rapid respiration. There is the rhythmically beating heart, distinctly pulsating in perfect outline. There is the liver, moving up and down with the diaphragm, the intestines, and the stomach. You can see the bones moving with the limbs, as well as the inner visceral life."

Having to do with the response of the body as opposed to the intellect, as in the distinction between feeling and thinking.

* 1630 , , "Death's Duel":

Our meditation of his death should be more visceral , and affect us more, because it is of a thing already done.

* 1915 , , The Research Magnificent , Prelude – On Fear and Aristocracy:

[T]he discretion of an aristocrat is in his head, a tactical detail, it has nothing to do with this visceral sinking, this ebb in the nerves.

* 1964 July 3, " Books: Understanding Media'' by Marshall McLuhan," ''Time :

Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral , and involve the individual almost without volition.

* 2011 Feb. 17, Ann Hulbert, " Book Review: Joyce Carol Oates’s Widow’s Lament''," ''New York Times (retrieved 10 Aug. 2011):

At its visceral core, grief is a stress response.

(figurative, obsolete) Having deep sensibility.

* Bishop Reynolds

Love is of all other the inmost and most visceral affection; and therefore called, by the apostle, 'bowels of love.'

Adjective

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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

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Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation

Spurious, artificial.

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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.

Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.

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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.

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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:whose false foundation waves have swept away

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

(lb) Out of tune.