caligare

1 călĭgare 1 to stitch or cobble hose. c1219 dum călĭgo caligas, cālīgo lumina claudit H. Avr. Poems 103. 22. 2 (p. ppl.) wearing hose. b made in the form of hose. Henricus [II] ‥ servos spurios ~atos cubili, mense, regno prefecit R. Niger II 167; s1332 in fugam conversus est super equum non cellatum, ‥ ~atus ex una tibia et nudus ex altera Plusc. IX 28.  b laneis utuntur seu braccis ~atis seu caligis braccatis Gir. TH III 10.

2 cālīgare [CL] , to be blind, grope in darkness; b (fig.). c to be obscure. d (pass.) to be dazzled. vespere superveniente dubio visu ~amus Bede Tab. 491; 9‥ ~ans, obumbrans, dymmede WW; 1150 noster potest oculus ‥ ~asse G. Foliot Ep. 96; mulier ‥ que ‥ per biennium cecitate ~averat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. II 77; astra ‥ caligantibus usum / lampadis indulgent Hanv. VIII 357 p. 371.  b in hujus virginitatis speculo ad intuendam faciem veritatis ‥ nonnulli, et ‥ qui imaginem videntur habere religionis, ~ant Lanfr. Cel. Conf. 626c; sunt hebetes ‥ quare? quia mens caligat eclipsi (Nig. Paul.) Speculum VII 421.  c terminos vetustate nimia ~antes ‥ lucidare curavimus R. Bury Phil. 12. 176.  d velut oculi noctue ante solis faciem ~antur EpAcOx 185.