[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
† 1. That is suffering eclipse; that is being eclipsed.
1748. A. Philips, Pastorals, vi. 114. His Voice had power To free the ’clipsing Moon at Midnight Hour.
2. That causes eclipse; that darkens, or causes darkness or obscurity. In quots. fig. only.
1635. Quarles, Embl., III. vii. (1718), 153. O why Does thy eclipsing hand so long deny The sunshine of thy soul-enliv’ning eye?
1821. Shelley, Adonais, liv. That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse Of birth can quench not.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., III. xl. 183. Despondency … had floated in and hovered above him with eclipsing wings.
3. That outshines or surpasses others.
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love (1659), 19. Their greatest accomplishments … are in that Eclipsing company, as inconspicuous as the faint Qualities of more ordinary persons.
