obscurant (comparative more obscurant, superlative most obscurant)
Acting or tending to confound, obfuscate, or obscure.
Typical of or pertaining to obscurants; obscurantic; obscurantistic.
obscurant (plural obscurants)
One who acts to confound or obfuscate; an obscurantist.
A person who seeks to prevent or hinder enquiry and the advancement of knowledge or wisdom; an agent of endarkenment.
An opposer of lucidity and transparency in the political and intellectual spheres.
• subcantor
Source: Wiktionary
Ob*scur"ant, n. Etym: [L. obscurans, p.pr. of obscurare to obscure.]
Definition: One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 April 2025
(adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed; “an extinguishable fire”; “hope too is extinguishable”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
