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obnubilate

[ ob-noo-buh-leyt, -nyoo- ]

verb (used with object)

obnubilated, obnubilating.
  1. to cloud over; becloud; obscure.


obnubilate

/ ɒˈːɪˌɪ /

verb

  1. literary.
    tr to darken or obscure
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of obnubilate1

First recorded in 1575–85; from Latin Dzūٳܲ, past participle of Dzū “to darken, obscure,” equivalent to ob- ob- + ū “to become cloudy,” verbal derivative of ūܲ “cdzܻ”; nubilous
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of obnubilate1

C16: ultimately from Latin Dzū to cover with clouds, from nubes cloud
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Example Sentences

Mostly, though, we are obnubilated by a culture that implies that how things are is how they ought to be.

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Love and jealousy are often companions, and excess of both had quite obnubilated the eyes of my understanding.

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This contained a liberal amount of sonorous words derived from the Latin, such as "campestral," "lapidescent," "obnubilate," and "adventitious."

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Now, by my knighthood," answered Sir Piercie, "your lovely faculties either of mind or body are, O my most fair Discretion, obnubilated by some strange hallucination.

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