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caligation en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare, uncountable) dimness; cloudiness
    • 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; 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: