ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  1.  Suffering from eclipse, darkened.

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1633.  G. Herbert, Temple, Parodie, iii. No stormie night Can so afflict … As thy eclipsed light.

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1673.  R. Head, Canting Acad., 130. As the splendour of the serene Sun outshines the gloominess of an eclipsed Moon.

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1884.  Athenæum, 11 Oct., 469/1. The absence of red colour in the eclipsed moon.

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  2.  transf. and fig. Obscured, ‘in the shade.’

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1577.  Holinshed, Chron., I. 177/1. The eclipsed state of England after his [king Edmund’s] death.

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1666.  Dryden, Ann. Mirab., xc. Mine shall sing of his eclipsed estate.

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  † b.  Enfeebled; laboring under infirmity. (In quot. 1667 perhaps = blind). Obs.

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1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 555. Those which are effeminate or defectiue, and ecclipsed in their mind or courage.

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1667.  Carte Papers (MS.), CLIV. fol. 132 b (Bodl. Libr.). The humble petition of William Walsh eclipsed.

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  † 3.  = ECLIPTIC a. Obs.

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1627.  in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 484. Who … would make a new Zodiack, and draw his eclipsed lines through the East and West Indies.

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