Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dim; indistinct; slurred over.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete indistinct; slurred over
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Indistinct; slurred over.
Etymologies
- Latin oblitus, past participle of oblinere to besmear. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But when the unnatural mother of Conftantine was depofed and banifli - cd, her fucceflTor Nicephorus refolved to oblite - rate this badge of fervitude and difgrace.”
Internet Archive: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ...
“[(Ag) 10 (ne) 4 (s tota) 4 (lly) 30 (oblite) 4 (ra) 4 (te) 4 (d from he) 4 (r re) 4 (me) 4 (mbra) 4 (nc) 4 (e) 4 (?)]”
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
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ramage's Words
frass, gabion, packfong, scombroid, threnodial, helminth, oblite, glabella, sconce, naptha, quirt, farrago and 5 more...
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hernesheir (adj): Indistinct; slurred over. Dec 31, 2008