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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Obscure  \Ob*scure"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Obscured};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Obscuring}.]  [L.  obscurare  fr  obscurus:  cf  OF 
  obscurer.  See  {Obscure},  a.] 
  To  render  obscure;  to  darken;  to  make  dim;  to  keep  in  the 
  dark;  to  hide;  to  make  less  visible,  intelligible,  legible, 
  glorious,  beautiful,  or  illustrious. 
 
  They  are  all  couched  in  a  pit  hard  by  Herne's  oak,  with 
  obscured  lights.  --Shak. 
 
  Why,  't  is  an  office  of  discovery,  love,  And  I  should 
  be  obscured.  --Shak. 
 
  There  is  scarce  any  duty  which  has  been  so  obscured  by 
  the  writings  of  learned  men  as  this  --Wake. 
 
  And  seest  not  sin  obscures  thy  godlike  frame?  --Dryden. 




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