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eclipsed, ppl. a.|ɪˈklɪpst|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Suffering from eclipse, darkened.
1633G. Herbert Temple, Parodie iii, No stormie night Can so afflict..As thy eclipsed light. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 130 An eclipsed Moon. 1884Athenæum 11 Oct. 469/1 The absence of red colour in the eclipsed moon.
2. transf. and fig. Obscured, ‘in the shade’.
1577Holinshed Chron. I. 177/1 The eclipsed state of England after his [king Edmund's] death. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. xc, Mine shall sing of his eclipsed estate.
†b. Enfeebled; labouring under infirmity. (In quot. 1667 perhaps = blind). Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 431 Those which are effeminate or defective, and eclipsed in their minde or courage. 1667Carte Papers (MS.) CLIV. fol. 132 b (Bodl. Libr.), The humble petition of William Walsh eclipsed.
†3. = ecliptic a. Obs.
1627in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 484 Who..would make a new Zodiack, and draw his eclipsed lines through the East and West Indies. |