caligation

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noun

dimness; cloudiness

OriginLatin caligatio →
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Meanings

nouncaligation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleterareuncountabledimness; cloudiness

    Now instead of a diminution or imperfect vision in the Moll, we affirm an abolition or totall privation; in stead of caligation or dimnesse, we conclude a cecity or blindness, which hath been frequently inferred concerning other animals;

    1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Origin

  1. Latincaligatio
  2. Englishcaligation

Borrowed from Latin caligatio, from caligare (“to emit vapour, to be dark”), from caligo (“mist, darkness”).

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APA

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Chicago

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