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caliginous

[ kuh-lij-uh-nuhs ]

adjective

Archaic.
  1. misty; dim; dark.


caliginous

/ əˈɪɪə /

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 51Թ Forms

  • ···ԴDz··ٲ [k, uh, -lij-, uh, -, nos, -i-tee], ·i·Դdzܲ·Ա noun
  • ·i·Դdzܲ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of caliginous1

1540–50; < Latin īōܲ misty, equivalent to ī- (stem of īō ) mist + -ōܲ -ous
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of caliginous1

C16: from Latin īōܲ, from īō 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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