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Repressing or obscure utterance.

or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible. God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms. Milton.

Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. Heaven's numerous hierarchy span The mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker.

Obscurity of doctrine.

To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

ome warm color. the shades vary greatly. -- Neutral vowel, the vowel element having an obscure and indefinite quality, such as is commonly taken by the vowel in many unaccented syllables. It is regarded by some as identical with the û in up, and is called also the natural vowel, as unformed by art and effort. See Guid…

Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. Pope.

tory, or illustrative observation. The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. Felton.

new star, usually appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity. Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. The most important modern novæ are: -- No"va Co*ro"næ Bo`re*a"lis [1866]; No"va Cyg"ni [1876]; No"va An*dro…

Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also offuscate.] Sir. T. Elyot.

Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. The love we bear our friends... Hath in it certain oblique ends. Drayton. This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power. De Quincey. Then would be closed the restless, o…

Indistinct; slurred over. [Obs.] "Obscure and oblite mention." Fuller.

To cloud; to obscure. [Obs.] Burton. -- Ob*nu"bi*la"tion, n. [Obs.] Beddoes.

Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.

the course of this contract. Shak. To shelter their ignorance, or obstinacy, under the obscurity of their terms. Locke.

Act of darkening or obscuring. [R.] Sir T. More.

king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity.

Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.

Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. [Colloq.]

Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison.