Obnubilate
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To obscure, to shadow. obsolete
"There is here fine criticism, classic wit, poetic dreaming, and some grains of sound doctrine, but so obnubilated with the fumes of German metaphysics, that we become giddy."
- 2 make unclear, indistinct, or blurred wordnet
- 3 To make cloudy.
- 4 make less visible or unclear wordnet
- 1 Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured. obsolete
"[B]ot sen I the to hir cure vassaill: [To mak the r]efrane, my power laikis haill. [For] in hir net thow art obnubilate: [Gif] thow conuert, and tak my trew counsall […]eng or lust thow suld neuer assaill. […]waill hart fra hir to sequestrate, […] time sa far as is fustrate: […]oir repent, and thow sall ȝit preuaill."
Example
More examples"[B]ot sen I the to hir cure vassaill: [To mak the r]efrane, my power laikis haill. [For] in hir net thow art obnubilate: [Gif] thow conuert, and tak my trew counsall […]eng or lust thow suld neuer assaill. […]waill hart fra hir to sequestrate, […] time sa far as is fustrate: […]oir repent, and thow sall ȝit preuaill."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin obnūbilātus, perfect passive participle of obnūbilō (“to cover with clouds or fog”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ob- + nūbilō (“be cloudy”), from nūbēs (“cloud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”).
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