Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obscured}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Obscuring}.] [L. obscurare, fr. obscurus: cf. OF.
   obscurer. See {Obscure}, a.]
   To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the
   dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible,
   glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

         They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with
         obscured lights.                         --Shak.

         Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should
         be obscured.                             --Shak.

         There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by
         the writings of learned men as this.     --Wake.

         And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden.