opacate, v. rare.
(əʊˈpeɪkeɪt)
[f. ppl. stem of L. opācāre, f. opāc-us opaque: see -ate3 5.]
trans. To render opaque, to dim.
| 1660 Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxvii. 308 A whiteness which did..opacate (as some speak) the inside of the Glass. a 1691 ― Hist. Air xx. (1692) 196 The Air is..sometimes more dark, and, as it were, muddy, being clogg'd and opacated with terrestrial Streams. 1890 H. Frederic Lawton Girl 20 Eyes..dimmed and opacated by the effects of dissipation. |