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opacous, a. Now rare.|əʊˈpeɪkəs|
[f. L. opāc-us opaque + -ous.]
= opaque a.
†1. = opaque 1. Obs.
1621–3Middleton & Rowley Changeling v. iii, What an opacous body had that moon that last chang'd on us! 1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 52 This Garden is thick, opacous, and shady. 1709Taffy's Triumph, Trusting To the dark covert of the opacous night.
†b. = opaque 1 b. Obs.
1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 108 Too much of the Powder makes the Metal black and opacous.
2. = opaque 2.
1625N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. i. (1635) 11 The shadowes imitate the opacous bodies, whence they arise. 1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass xlii, The glass becomes transparent, and no more Opacous. 1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sc. 36 Occasioned by an Eruption of Smoke, and other opacous Matter. 1814Cary Dante (Chandos Classics) 159 Through which thou saw'st no better, than the mole Doth through opacous membrane. 1868Lowell Under Willows 201 The sound of human voice Or footfall..Doth in opacous cloud precipitate The consciousness.
Hence oˈpacously adv., opaquely; oˈpacousness, opaqueness.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 208/1 The first Mind, by its opacousness eclipsing their lustre. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. Wks. 1772 III. 43 Gravity and levity, firmness and fluidity, opacousness..transparency, &c. 1670E. R. Animadv. Glanvill's Ne Plus Ultra 147 It seemed..opacously red as Tent wine. |