clowdie

So as the other Artistes, and especially the Historian, affirming manie things, can in the clowdie knowledge of mankinde, hardly escape from manie lies.

Defence of Poesie 1992

So as the other Artistes, and especially the Historian, affirming manie things, can in the clowdie knowledge of mankinde, hardly escape from manie lies.

Defence of Poesie 1992

We can well understand how this presentation of Christianity as "a culture and discipline of the whole man -- an education and consecration of all his higher activities" [70] -- would seem, to those accustomed to dualistic theologies, "clowdie and obscure."

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

Doe thou but smile, and clowdie heauen will cleare,

The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage Christopher Marlowe 1578