enubilate

verb

1. To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.

   rare, transitive

   Maeterlinck is gradually enubilating himself from those enchanted mists in which first he strayed.

Where it comes from

From Latin ēnūbilātus, past participle of ēnūbilāre (“to enubilate”), from ē- (“out”) + nūbila (“clouds”), from nūbilis (“cloudy”), nūbēs (“cloud”). By surface analysis, e- + Latin nubil- + -ate.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry enubilate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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