obfuscatedadj.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 6 The Inhabitants..haue turbid and obfuscated spirits.

1656 W. Coles Art of Simpling xxxii. 115 If his sight be obfuscated and dull.

1789 A. Young Jrnl. 26 Sept. in Trav. France (1792) i. 195 The houses are of an ugly obfuscated brick.

1918 Philos. Rev. 27 41 He discovers that ‘thought’, ‘the self’, the emotions, and other much obfuscated mental terms have their meaning as factors in this body complex.

1945 Amer. Midland Naturalist 34 596 Hind tibia and first segment of hind tarsus somewhat obfuscated.

1998 J. H. Hayes & S. R. Mandell Jewish People in Classical Antiq. Introd. 5 Reconstruction of some of that interaction is possible, however, because the literature does remark upon it in an obfuscated manner.

1822 J. Q. Adams in Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. (1943) 30 14 [A] somewhat obfuscated [intellect].

1857 T. E. Wilks Bamboozling 16 Sir M. I have recently married Mrs. Singley—Bam. Mrs. Singley! I'm obfuscated!

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vii. 125 As for uncle Pullet, he could hardly have been more thoroughly obfuscated if Mr Tulliver had said that he was going to send Tom to the Lord Chancellor.

1861 T. Taylor Up at Hills i. i. 19 Mrs. Mc. C. You were tipsy, you say? Green Obfuscated, decidedly.

1909 A. Bierce Woeful Tale of Mr. Peters in Coll. Wks. V. 158 ‘Put him out!’ cried all in chorus; but the meaning wasn't clear Of that succoring suggestion to his obfuscated ear.

1946 A. Gray Socialist Trad. i. 25 Aristotle is not, however, an obfuscated defender of things are they are.