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▪ I. oˈffuscate, ppl. a. Now rare.
[ad. L. offuscāt-us, pa. pple.: see next.]
= obfuscate ppl. a.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 658 Their eie sight..is offuscate and darkened by the great light. a1615Donne Ess. (1651) 104 The certainty of the Person or History is therby offuscate. 1840New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 458 His offuscate eyes.
▪ II. oˈffuscate, v. Now rare.
[f. L. offuscāt-, ppl. stem of offuscāre to darken, f. of-, ob- (ob- 1) + fuscāre to darken, fusc-us dark. See also obfuscate.]
1. = obfuscate v. 1.
1656Blount Glossogr., Offuscate, to make black or dark. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 236 The exhalations..which offuscate, or darken the Sun. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. ii. xvi. 45, I should fear those Dwarfs might grow so large as to offuscate or shadow the Wall-Fruit or Espaliers. 1807Herschel in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 184 The brilliancy of the metalline ground on which these faint rings are seen, the contrast of which will offuscate their feeble appearance. 1816F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. ii. xiv. 677 A constellation, by whose transcendent radiance all inferior luminaries were offuscated.
2. = obfuscate v. 2.
1623Hart Arraignm. Ur. Ded. A, Hee was forced to yeeld to such conditions as did much offuscate the splendor of his former victories. a1734North Exam. ii. v. §1 (1740) 315 To take all Occasions and Handles that may operate in that Design, and to drop or offuscate all the rest. 1834–43Southey Doctor cxlix. (1862) 389 That knowledge is..obliterated or offuscated by its [the soul's] union with the body. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 358 His gaiety and his gravity offuscate one another.
3. = obfuscate v. 3.
1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 93 She had her spirits so offuscated as..not to know her selfe. 1727Philip Quarll 241 The Tears..which offuscated his Sight. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 336 Some men's timidity offuscates their understandings. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. III. ix. 230 Mowbray's brain..was somewhat offuscated.
Hence oˈffuscated, oˈffuscating ppl. adjs.
a1659Osborn Misc., etc. (1673) 582 Such a perplexed knowledge, as renders their understanding..more offuscated and gloomy. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 33. 2/1 To Inlighten their Offuscated Intellects. 1798W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. I. 237 The future offuscating philosophy. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. iii. 35 These vain and offuscating disputations. |