a. rare. [ad. L. tenebricōs-us, f. tenebric-us dark, gloomy: see -OSE.] Full of darkness; dark, obscure; gloomy.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1817. T. L. Peacock, Melincourt, xxxi. He … has taken a very opaque and tenebricose view of how much of the spheroidical perception belongs to the object.
1851. Martha Martell, Second Love, xxxvii. 288. I perceive that you have been blinded and deafened by the tenebricose teaching of that prelatical priest, till truth falls upon your ears like gold-dust upon the ocean.
1902. Ford & Banning, Flotsam, 21–2.
| The stalwart summits, crowned with light | |
| That shone from Paradise | |
| When arose, | |
| Tenebricose, | |
| The storms of winter skies! |
