TENEBRIFIC
\tˌɛnɪbɹˈɪfɪk], \tˌɛnɪbɹˈɪfɪk], \t_ˌɛ_n_ɪ_b_ɹ_ˈɪ_f_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of TENEBRIFIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
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Producing darkness; as, a philosopher once asserted that night succeeded to day through the influence of tenebrific stars. "The chief mystics in Germany, it would appear, are the transcendental philosophers, Kant, Fichte, and Schelling! With these is the chosen seat of mysticism, these are its 'tenebrific constellations,'from which it doth 'ray out darkness' over the earth."-Carlyle.
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