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Webster 1913 Edition
Opake
Webster 1828 Edition
Opake
OPA'KE
,Adj.
1.
Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent. [This is the word now generally used.] Chalk is an opake substance.2.Dark; obscure.
Definition 2024
opake
opake
English
Adjective
opake (comparative more opake, superlative most opake)
- Alternative form of opaque
- 1969, Douglas McKie, (Please provide the title of the work) (Science), Digitized edition, Harvard Univ. Press, published 2007, page 187:
- The artificial marble made here is made in the common way with Gypsum Lime and other materials and the artist who is an Italian calls himself a Scagliolist (Scagliola being their name for Gypsum or works in Gypsum) he imitates some of the opake and coloured marbles ...
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Middle English
Etymology
From Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque.
Adjective
opake (comparative opaker, superlative opakest)