eclipse
eclipse is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.
- 2.To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.
- 3.To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing. "His eclipsed state." Dryden. My joy of liberty is half eclipsed. Shak.
- 4.To suffer an eclipse. While the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms. Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- avaunt
- away
- behind
- blind
- blush
- born
- conceal
- concealed
- concealment
- covered
- covert
- curtain
- dark
- delitescence
- delitescent
- depart
- departure
- dim
- disappear
- disappearance
- disappearing
- dissolve
- dissolving
- efface
- ejection
- escape
- evanescence
- evanescent
- evaporate
- exit
- fade
- faint
- flower
- focus
- from
- full
- fuzzy
- get
- gone
- here
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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