obnubilate
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin obnūbilātus, perfect passive participle of obnūbilō (“cover with clouds or fog”), from ob- + nūbilō (“be cloudy”), from nūbēs (“cloud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɒbˈnjuːbɪlət/
Adjective
[edit]obnubilate (comparative more obnubilate, superlative most obnubilate)
- (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
- 1575, John Rolland, edited by W. Gregor, Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venvs, published 1884, bk 1, ll. 244-251 (p. 23):
- [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.
- 1610, John Healey, transl., St. Auguſtine, of the Citie of God, bk 19, ch. 4, p. 758:
- And that ſame ὁρμὴ, that violent motion vnto action…is it not that that effecteth thoſe ſtrange and horrible acts of madneſſe when the reaſon & ſence are both beſotted and obnubilate?
- 1630, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-poet, John Taylor, epigram 36, p. 266/1:
- Mans vnderstanding’s so obnubilate,
That when thereon I doe excogitate,
Intrinsicall and querimonious paines
Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines.
- 1860, George William Bagby (aut., ed.), “Editor’s Table” in The Southern Literary Messenger XXXI (N.S. X), p. 74:
- Here is the sample of [Whitman’s] obnubilate, incoherent, convulsive flub-drub.
Translations
[edit]covered or darkened as with a cloud, overclouded, obscured
References
[edit]- “† Obnu·bilate, ppl. a.” in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st edition), volume VII (O, P; 1909), § i (O, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray), page 25/3
- “obnubilate, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Latin obnūbilō, as above.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪt/
Verb
[edit]obnubilate (third-person singular simple present obnubilates, present participle obnubilating, simple past and past participle obnubilated)
- (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
- 1832, “Miscellaneous”, in Biblical Repertory and Theological Review, volume IV, page 143:
- 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.
- To make cloudy.
Derived terms
[edit]- obnubilated (adjective)
References
[edit]- “Obnubilate, v.” in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st edition), volume VII (O, P; 1909), § i (O, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray), page 25/3
- “obnubilate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Related terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]obnubilate
- inflection of obnubilare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]obnubilate f pl
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]obnubilate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of obnubilar combined with te
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- English lemmas
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