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Webster 1913 Edition


Obnubilate

Ob-nu′bi-late

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
obnubilatus
, p. p. of
obnubilare
to obscure. See
Ob-
, and
Nubilate
.]
To cloud; to obscure.
[Obs.]
Burton.
Ob-nu′bi-la′tion
(#)
,
Noun.
[Obs.]
Beddoes.

Webster 1828 Edition


Obnubilate

OBNU'BILATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. obnubilor; ob and nubilo; nubes, mist, cloud.]
To cloud; to obscure.

Definition 2024


obnubilate

obnubilate

English

Adjective

obnubilate (comparative more obnubilate, superlative most obnubilate)

  1. (obsolete) obscured
  2. cloudy

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Latin obnūbilō

Verb

obnubilate (third-person singular simple present obnubilates, present participle obnubilating, simple past and past participle obnubilated)

  1. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
    • (Can we date this quote?): Samuel Coleridge, The Princeton Review:
      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. To make cloudy.
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Italian

Verb

obnubilate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of obnubilare
  2. second-person plural imperative of obnubilare
  3. feminine plural of obnubilato