Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Dimness of sight; caligation. Also called achlys.
- n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of butterflies, of the subfamily Brassolinæ. C. eurylochus is the enormous owl-butterfly of South America, sometimes expanding 9 inches. C. uranus is another species with an orange bar across the wings.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
Etymologies
- Latin, darkness. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fuscini derepente tanta acris caligo et terraemotus, ut multi capite dolerent, plurimus cor moerore et melancholia obrueretur.”
“Et fuit, sole occumbente caligo erat, et ecce furnus fumans, et lampas ignis quae transibat inter divisiones ipsas.”
“Sed quoniam firmioribus remediis nondum tempus est et eam mentium constat esse naturam, ut quotiens abiecerint ueras falsis opinionibus induantur ex quibus orta perturbationum caligo uerum illum confundit intuitum, hanc paulisper lenibus mediocribusque fomentis attenuare temptabo, ut dimotis fallacium affectionum tenebris splendorem uerae lucis possis agnoscere.”
“Quarum speciem, ueluti fumosas imagines solet, caligo quaedam neglectae uetustatis obduxerat.”
“Ever yours E.F. G. 'Sed genus humanum damnat caligo F.turi' -- a Lucretian line from Juvenal.”
“But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light, — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, that is, a divine darkness,”
“But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings.”
“: plagam iiorribilis caligo deinde fe - cuta eft« ima primigenum mors inopina fuit C A R M E N XXXV;”
Internet Archive: Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum
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