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caliginous

[ kuh-lij-uh-nuhs ]

adjective

Archaic.
  1. misty; dim; dark.


caliginous

/ °ìəˈ±ôɪ»åÏôɪ²ÔÉ™²õ /

adjective

  1. archaic.
    dark; dim
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦²¹Â·±ô¾±²µÂ·¾±Â·²Ô´Ç²õ·¾±Â·³Ù²â [k, uh, -lij-, uh, -, nos, -i-tee], ³¦²¹Â·±ô¾±²µî€ƒi·²Ô´Ç³Ü²õ·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
  • ³¦²¹Â·±ô¾±²µî€ƒi·²Ô´Ç³Ü²õ·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of caliginous1

1540–50; < Latin ³¦Äå±ôÄ«²µ¾±²ÔŲõ³Ü²õ misty, equivalent to ³¦Äå±ôÄ«²µ¾±²Ô- (stem of ³¦Äå±ôÄ«²µÅ ) mist + -Ųõ³Ü²õ -ous
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of caliginous1

C16: from Latin ³¦Äå±ôÄ«²µ¾±²ÔŲõ³Ü²õ, from ³¦Äå±ôÄ«²µÅ darkness
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A caliginous floating video of a glassy black horse eye blinks perpetually on the home page.

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Her long small face looked back at her gravely under the caliginous head-dress, as she shook her head from side to side, to make it totter and tilt.

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The only signpost was a list of names and room numbers tacked to a corkboard, so I found mine and rollerbagged down the building’s spooky, caliginous hallways until I tracked down my assigned spot.

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To the first two movies' clinking, clanking, clattering collections of caliginous junk, adds what has become a go-to staple of Hollywood fantasy: the retro-conspiracy theory.

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Were one content, like Gibbon, to take one's history like snuff there would be to hand a mass of caliginous detail with which to cause shuddering in the unsuspecting reader.

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