caligation

dimness; cloudiness

Noun

  1. 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...

Origin

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