Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dimness of sight; caligation. Also called
achlys . - noun [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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
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- noun medicine, obsolete
dimness orobscurity ofsight , dependent upon aspeck on thecornea
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fuscini derepente tanta acris caligo et terraemotus, ut multi capite dolerent, plurimus cor moerore et melancholia obrueretur.
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Et fuit, sole occumbente caligo erat, et ecce furnus fumans, et lampas ignis quae transibat inter divisiones ipsas.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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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.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Quarum speciem, ueluti fumosas imagines solet, caligo quaedam neglectae uetustatis obduxerat.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Ever yours E.F. G. 'Sed genus humanum damnat caligo F.turi' -- a Lucretian line from Juvenal.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846
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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,
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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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.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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: plagam iiorribilis caligo deinde fe - cuta eft« ima primigenum mors inopina fuit C A R M E N XXXV;
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva). 1774
bilby commented on the word caligo
I bet Caligo uranus grew up the butt of playground jokes.
March 27, 2016