caliginous

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"Was it very caliginous in the Metropolis?" he asked.

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  • Here, selected from more, are a few "fire-flies," -- not dancing or distracted, but authentic all, and stuck each on its spit; shedding a feeble glimmer over the physiognomy of those Fifteen caliginous Months, to an imagination that is diligent. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • "Was it very caliginous in the Metropolis?" he asked. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
  • To be sure, by today's standards, the film's most often used epithet, fool is quite harmless; but such timeless pearls as You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk! are as effective and amusing today as they were fifty years ago. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
  • After which, for above twenty years, Bonneville entered upon a series of adventures, caliginous, underground, for most part; 'soldiering in America,' 'writing anonymous Pamphlets or Books,' roaming wide over the world; and led a busy but obscure and uncertain life, hanging by Berlin as a kind of centre, or by Paris and Berlin as his two centres; and had a miscellaneous series of adventures, subterranean many of them, unluminous all of them, not courting the light; which lie now in naturally a very dark condition. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • "Somewhat caliginous," Lawerence replied gravely, —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
 

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  1. From Latin cālīginōsus, from cālīgō, cālīgin-, darkness.

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  1. from Latin caliginosus, from caligo (caligin-), darkness: see caligo.
 

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/kæˈlɪdʒɪnəs/
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