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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Dark, misty, and gloomy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Dim; obscure; dark.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Which is influenced by darkness or obscurity.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. dark and misty and gloomy

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French caligineux ("misty, obscure"), from Latin cālīginōsus ("misty; dark, obscure"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin cālīginōsus, from cālīgō, cālīgin-, darkness. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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.”

    2009 October « Hyperpat’s HyperDay

  • “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 ...”

    Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Alliteration

  • “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.”

    Mistborn

  • “Yet, as she turned weakly, she saw Camon looming above her in the caliginous room, drunken fury showing in his face.”

    Mistborn

  • “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.”

    Essays and Miscellanies

  • “Behind this individual, a corpulent caliginous man, came a following round of guards.”

    Simon & Schuster: Pawns and Symbols

  • “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

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  • 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

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