Caligation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    dimness; cloudiness obsolete, rare, uncountable

    "Now instead of a diminution or imperfect vision in the Moll, we affirm an abolition or totall privation; in stead of caligation or dimnesse, we conclude a cecity or blindness, which hath been frequently inferred concerning other animals;"

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"Now instead of a diminution or imperfect vision in the Moll, we affirm an abolition or totall privation; in stead of caligation or dimnesse, we conclude a cecity or blindness, which hath been frequently inferred concerning other animals;"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caligatio, from caligare (“to emit vapour, to be dark”), from caligo (“mist, darkness”).

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