mirksome
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
mirksome (comparative more mirksome, superlative most mirksome)
- (archaic) Dark; gloomy; murky.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto 5, verse 28:
- Then to her yron wagon she betakes, / And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: / Through mirksome aire her ready way she makes.
- 1600 [1581], Edward, trans. Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, book XIII, verse v, translation of La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso:
- And there, in silence deaf and mirksome shade, / His characters and circles vain he made.
Synonyms edit
- cimmerian, dingy, tenebrous; see also Thesaurus:dark
Related terms edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mirksome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)