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In some senses, obnubilate is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
obnubilate
/ɒbˈnjuːbɪlət/
verb 2adj 1
Collocations
2VERB + OBNUBILATE
net, otted, vnderstanding
OBNUBILATE + NOUN
conuert, gif, thereon, thow
Definitions
adj
1
Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
[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.
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?
verb
1
To obscure, to shadow.
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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[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
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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?
Wiktionary03
Mans vnderstanding’s so obnubilate, That when thereon I doe excogitate, Intrinsicall and querimonious paines Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines.
Wiktionary04
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.
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