obscurum per obscurius

== English == === Etymology === From Latin obscūrum per obscūrius, “[to explain] the obscure by the more obscure”. === Phrase === obscurum per obscurius Synonym of ignotum per ignotius (“explaining an obscure subject by resort to one even more obscure”). === References === “obscurum per obscurius”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.