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Opacous

Opacous \O*pa"cous\, a. [L. opacus. See Opaque.] Opaque. [R.]
--Milton. -- O*pa"cous*ness, n. [R.]

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opacous

a. (context obsolete English) opaque.

Usage examples of "opacous".

Nor is the earths shadow any corporall thing, or thicke substance, that it can cloud the Moones brightnesse, or take it away from our sight, but it is a meere privation of the Suns light, by reason of the interposition of the earths opacous body.

The Moone doth there appeare clearest, where shee is transpicuous, not onely through the superficies, but the substance also, and there she seemes spotted, where her body is most opacous.

Embrace not the opacous and blind side of Opinions, but that which looks most Luciferously or influentially unto Goodness.