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obnubilate

adjective /ɒbˈnjuːbɪlət/

  1. Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.

    obsolete

    [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.

    [B]ot sen I the to hir cure vassaill:

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin obnūbilātus, perfect passive participle of obnūbilō (“to cover with clouds or fog”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ob- + nūbilō (“be cloudy”), from nūbēs (“cloud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). By surface analysis, ob- + Latin nubil- + -ate.

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

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