a. [app. altered form of TENEBROUS: not on L. analogies.] Of or pertaining to darkness; of dark nature; = TENEBROUS.
1594. Selimus, A iv b. The caue tenebrious, and damned spirits holt.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., IX. 459. A place so palpably tenebrious, into which the eyes of Heauen cannot pierce and see me.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 963. Were Moon, and Stars, for Villains only made? To guide, yet screen them, with tenebrious Light?
1764. M. Browne, Sunday Thoughts, I. 173.
| Thus chang’d! when on his sad, tenebrious Soul | |
| JESUS, the Day-star, from above, shall rise, | |
| With healing Balm beneath his radiant Wings. |
1820. Foster, Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance, 216. All this therefore passes before him with a tenebrious glimmer, and is gone.
1907. Speaker, 19 Jan., 471/1. Thoughts tenebrious and impassioned.
Hence Tenebriously adv., darkly.
1861. J. Thomson, Ladies of Death, xv. Thy lidless eyes tenebriously bright.
