▪ I. † obˈnubilate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. obnūbilāt-us, pa. pple. of obnūbilāre: see next.]
Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
| 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus i. 246 In hir net thow art obnubilate. 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xix. iv. 758 The reason and sence are both besotted and obnubilate. 1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Epigr. xxxvi. Wks. ii. 266/1 Mans vnderstanding's so obnubilate. |
▪ II. obnubilate, v.
(ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪt)
[f. L. obnūbilāt-, ppl. stem of obnūbilāre to cover with clouds or fog. Cf. F. obnubiler, OF. obnubler (12th c. in Godef.).]
trans. To darken, dim, cover, or hide with or as with a cloud; to overcloud; to obscure (lit. and fig.).
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 78 As mystes and exhalations..obnubilate and darken the beames of the Sun. 1616 R. C. Times' Whistle Cert. Poems (1871) 135 Your false intent faire wordes obnubilate. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. ii. ii, So doth this melancholy vapour obnubilate the mind. 1686 Goad Celest. Bodies ii. iv. 196 Clouds obnubilating the Face of Heaven shall skreen the Sun from us. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 461 Until they raise a dust which obnubilates that better light. 1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl x. (1860) 93 Your smokers [are] obnubilated in their own clouds. |
Hence obˈnubilated ppl. a.
| 1658 [see adiaphanous a.]. 1830 R. Chambers Life Jas. I, I. ix. 246 He found his mind in that obnubilated state. 1839 Raymond in New Monthly Mag. LV. 514 Some narration of ‘himself and times’, whereby his obnubilated patronymic might transpire to the fullest content. 1939 E. Pound Let. 7 Nov. (1971) 330, I loathe and always have loathed Indian art... Obnubilated, short curves, muddle, jungle, etc. |