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obscurely, adv.|əbˈskjʊəlɪ|
[f. obscure a. + -ly2.]
In an obscure way, manner, or degree.
1. a. Darkly; dimly, dully; not brightly or luminously. b. So as to be indistinct to the sight or other sense; dimly, indistinctly. c. With a dark, sombre, or dingy colour; dully.
c1596Johnson Seven Champions ii. vii. (1852) 194 They stood obscurely behind the trees. 1620Rowlands Night Raven 28 A night..obscurely darke, or Moone light cleere. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 54 Torches, which (though of pure white wax) were yet all artificially made obscurely browne. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 420 There my Whole, obscurely bright, Still shows his little lamp by night. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xxi. (1873) 498 It is composed of obscurely-stratified hard sandstone. 1871― Desc. Man II. xii. 25 The young are obscurely tinted. 1871Roby Lat. Gram. I. Pref. 73 In English we are in the habit of changing, or pronouncing obscurely, short vowels in unaccented syllables.
2. fig. With obscurity of meaning, expression, or exposition; not plainly or clearly.
1527R. Thorne in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 253 It [a map] cannot be but obscurely set out. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. 1888 I. 107 Quhy hef ze setfurth the said pennance sa obscuirlie? 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 48 By your absence have I obscurely ghessed, and by your letters clearely understood of the strange resolution. 1797–1803Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 195 To reveal, though obscurely. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. lv, She even went so far as to hint obscurely at an attachment.
3. In obscurity; inconspicuously.
1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 8 You will bee accounted..a peasant, if ye liue thus obscurelie. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 260 Most Poets dye poor, and consequently obscurely. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 223 He lived obscurely in Knave's-acre, in partnership with a house-painter. 1876Browning St. Martin's Summer v, Though corpses rot obscurely, Ghosts escape. |