Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Obfuscate \Ob*fus"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obfuscated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Obfuscating}.]
   To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to
   bewilder.

         His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the
         ideas whirling round and round about in it, all
         obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter.
                                                  --Sterne.

         Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects
         of meaner females.                       --Sir. W.
                                                  Scott.