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To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.] I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may. Spenser.

Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.

A discourser. [Obs.] L. Addison.

g from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.

A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.

One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom. Coleridge.

The system or the principles of the obscurants. C. Kingsley.

Same as Obscurant. Ed. Rev.

The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. Sir J. Herschel.

; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim. His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Prov. xx. 20.

In an obscure manner. Milton.

The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.

Obscurity. Bp. Hall.

One who, or that which, obscures.

The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.

Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.