Hypertext Webster Gateway: "obscuring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obscured}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Obscuring}.] [L. obscurare, fr. obscurus: cf. OF.
obscurer. See {Obscure}, a.]
To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the
dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible,
glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with
obscured lights. --Shak.

Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should
be obscured. --Shak.

There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by
the writings of learned men as this. --Wake.

And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden.


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