obnubilate
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Is obnubilate a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of obnubilate?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.Examples: "[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?"; "Mans vnderstanding’s so obnubilate, That when thereon I doe excogitate, Intrinsicall and querimonious paines Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.Examples: "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."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary