oblite

English

Etymology

Latin oblitus, past participle of oblinere (“to besmear”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈblaɪt/

Adjective

oblite (comparative more oblite, superlative most oblite)

  1. (obsolete) Indistinct; slurred over.
    • 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Tribe of Asher”, in A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof; with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon. […], London: William Tegg, published 1869, OCLC 729957916, , paragraph 21:
      Surely the water of them is more clear than the is place alleged out of the Canticles (Cant. iv. 15) to prove Solomon the author thereof, where but obscure and oblite mention is made of those water-works.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for oblite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

oblīte

  1. vocative masculine singular of oblītus
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