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caligation

caligation noun: dimness; cloudiness.

Noun

caligation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) dimness; 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 of caligation

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

Questions about caligation

What does caligation mean?
Caligation means dimness; cloudiness.
What part of speech is caligation?
Caligation is a noun.

Words near caligation in the dictionary

  1. califs
  2. caliga
  3. caligae
  4. Caligaris
  5. caligate
  6. caligation
  7. caligid
  8. caligidosis
  9. caligids
  10. caligiform
  11. caliginosities

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