Careful Words

palpable (adj.)

Clothing the palpable and familiar

With golden exhalations of the dawn.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Death of Wallenstein. Act i. Sc. 1.

A hit, a very palpable hit.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

The palpable obscure.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 406.