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Caliginous   Listen
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Caliginous  adj.  Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. (R.) "The caliginous regions of the air."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Caliginous" Quotes from Famous Books



... the animals in their virtue and energy are fifteen degrees superior to ours; that they emit nothing excrementitious; and that the days are fifteen times longer. Anaxagoras, that the reason of the inequality ariseth from the commixture of things earthy and cold; and that fiery and caliginous matter is jumbled together, whereby the moon is said to be a star of a counterfeit aspect. The Stoics, that on account of the diversity of her substance the composition of her body is subject ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch



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