obscurum per obscurius
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of obscurum per obscurius
Latin: the obscure by the more obscure
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Or was this a special visitation of God, a plague new to the medical world, spontaneously generated, sporadic in its appearance, and destined forever to be an obscurum per obscurius or perhaps to spread with further undetermined horrors?
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All attempts to illustrate the history of the Angles of Germany by means of that of the nations mentioned in conjunction with them by Tacitus, is obscurum per obscurius.
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You have heard of obscurity illustrated by a further obscurity,—obscurum per obscurius.
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We must not study obscurum per obscurius.
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The result would be obscurum per obscurius, a remedy worse than the disease.
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