| 单词 | to obscure oneself from |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto obscure oneself from 3. transitive. To make (speech, language, its meaning, etc.) unclear, unintelligible, or difficult to understand; to blur the significance of. †to obscure oneself from (Scottish): to render one's meaning obscure to (obsolete rare).Chiefly suggesting unintentional lack of clarity; cf. obfuscate v. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > make obscure [verb (transitive)] obfusk1490 darken1526 obfuscate1536 perplex1547 overcloudc1550 offuscate1567 obscure1584 offusque1599 intenebrate1618 tenebrificatec1743 nubilate1801 riddle1817 obscurify1826 obfusticate1834 fog1847 1584 in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) vi. 331 He at first obscured himself from me, and would not be plain. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 129 To obscure, rather than illustrate, that which is so..plainly there expressed. 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Ep. Ded. He often obscures his meaning by his words, and sometimes makes it unintelligible. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 156. ⁋2 The evidence [is] obscured by inaccurate argumentation. 1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers ixvii [It] must have originated in an intention to deceive the people, too palpable to be obscured by sophistry, too atrocious to be palliated by hypocrisy. 1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 409 This language..serves not to elucidate, but to disguise and obscure. 1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form xii. 57 It [sc. the fugue form for choruses] should be freely adopted whenever it does not too much obscure the sense of the words. 1955 E. Blishen Roaring Boys iii. 138 His power to obscure a story with myriads of unlocated ‘hims’ and ‘thems’. 1999 Isis 90 819/2 The clear sense of zündungsfördernden is obscured by the rare and obsolete word ‘igniparous’. < as lemmas |
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