Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin cālīginōsus, from cālīgō, cālīgin-, darkness.
Examples
““It was a dark and stormy night” might become “It was a caliginous and raving night” or “It was an obscure and disorderly night” – not exactly conveying what the original does.”
“Yet at virtually no time, amid the clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk that rattles through "Dark of the Moon," is there the sense that such a gap has been spanned.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
“You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk ...”
“Noblemen weren't supposed to be afraid of such things, but that didn't change the fact that the deep, caliginous mist was just plain creepy.”
“Yet, as she turned weakly, she saw Camon looming above her in the caliginous room, drunken fury showing in his face.”
“Anaxagoras, that the reason of the inequality ariseth from the commixture of things earthy and cold; and that fiery and caliginous matter is jumbled together, whereby the moon is said to be a star of a counterfeit aspect.”
“Behind this individual, a corpulent caliginous man, came a following round of guards.”
“Clinking, clanking, caliginous collections of junk.”
Moonwar
“Ahead, the sun began to emerge from hiding, and it was as caliginous as the misbegotten stars.”
The Howling Stones
“Boulders and trees continued to slide into the caliginous void and vanish.”
Cyber Way
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caliginous’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 more...
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light
words pertaining to light or lack there of
apricity, luminiferous, penumbral, caliginous, gloaming, scoteography, cwm, nyctalopia
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melissaerb's list
knitandpurl "Then he turned to begin his own caliginous descent down the forest path that pointed to the Outland and to all of its wondrous wonders."
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 186 Sep 2, 2011
dbekeny OZ'S VOICE
You dare to come to me for a heart, do you?
You clinking, clanking, clattering
collection of caliginous....junk!
Jun 9, 2010
yarb ...those dark, fogbound, snowblinding caliginous spells...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola Jul 30, 2008