Think’st thou, vain spirit, thy glories are the same,Īnd seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? To make less glorious, beautiful, or illustrious. There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men, as this. To make less intelligible.īy private consent it hath been used in dangerous times to obscure writing, and make it hard to be read by others not acquainted with the intrigue. Thinking by this retirement to obscure himself from God, he infringed the omnisciency and essential ubiquity of his maker. They in themselves, good sooth, are too, too light.Īnd I should be obscur’d. They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne’s oak, with obscured lights which at the very instant of Falstaff’s and our meeting, they will at once display to the night. Mountains on mountains, and obscure the pole. Sudden the thunder blackens all the skies,Īnd the winds whistle, and the surges roll He says, that he is an obscure person one, I suppose, that is in the dark.Įtymology: obscuro, Latin. I explain some of the most obscure passages, and those which are most necessary to be understood, and this according to the manner wherein he used to express himself. Not easily intelligible abstruse difficult. The obscure bird clamour’d the live-long night. Whoso curseth his father or mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Dark unenlightened gloomy, hindring sight. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: obscur, Fr. Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing Obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide verb Reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa 'Her remarks confused the debate' 'Their words obnubilate their intentions' 'The stars are obscured by the clouds' 'the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley' Obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist verb 'existed over the centuries as a world apart' 'preserved because they inhabited a place apart'- W.H.Hudson 'tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization' 'an obscure village'

Remote and separate physically or socially 'an unnoticeable cigarette burn on the carpet' 'an obscure flaw' 'an obscure family' 'unsung heroes of the war' 'hidden valleys' 'a hidden cave' 'an obscure retreat' 'much that was dark is now quite clear to me' 'those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure' Marked by difficulty of style or expression 'an obscure turn of phrase' 'an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit'-Anatole Broyard 'their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear'- P.A.Sorokin 'vague.forms of speech.have so long passed for mysteries of science'- John Locke Princeton's WordNet Rate this definition: 4.0 / 1 vote

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