Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for OB-SCURE
OB-SCURE, v.t. [L. obscuro.]
- To darken; to make dark. The shadow of the earth obscures the moon, and the body of the moon obscures the sun, in an eclipse.
- To cloud; to make partially dark. Thick clouds obscure the day.
- To hide from the view; as, clouds obscure the sun.
- To make less visible. Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love, / And I should be obscured. Shak.
- To make less legible; as, time has obscured the writing.
- To make less intelligible. There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of the learned as this. Wake.
- To make less glorious, beautiful or illustrious. And see'st not sin obscures thy godlike frame? Dryden.
- To conceal; to make unknown. Milton.
- To tarnish; as, to obscure brightness.
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