Tenebrificous

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of tenebrific (“producing darkness”). obsolete

    "But to fancy any Stars efficiently and poſitively to cauſe cold, is as extravagant and ridiculous as that conceit of Paracelſus, that imagined that it was not the abſence of the Sun but certain Tenebrificous Stars that cauſed Night."

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"But to fancy any Stars efficiently and poſitively to cauſe cold, is as extravagant and ridiculous as that conceit of Paracelſus, that imagined that it was not the abſence of the Sun but certain Tenebrificous Stars that cauſed Night."

Etymology

From tenebrific + -ous, ultimately from Latin tenebrae (“darkness”).

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