Citations:obnubilated

English citations of obnubilated

1830, Robert Chambers, The Life of King James the First, volume I, chapter ix: “The Gowry Conspiracy”, page 246:
James was still irresolute. Surprised alike at the strangeness of the tale, and at the confused manner of the reciter, he could not decide what course he should pursue. He found his mind, perhaps, in that obnubilated state, which we generally experience when told any thing very much out of the common way, or of which we cannot well make the different facts tally.
1839 April, George Raymond, “The Prince of Darkness” in Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LV, ed. Theodore Hook, first part, № ccxx, page 514:
Fortunately, the fashion for general introductions had fallen into disuse, and this was something. Yet what was to be done? Some one present, — Pipkin, for instance, so fond of going from place to place, and being considered a great diner out, might possibly be acquainted with him, and so accost him by name; and it might turn out, if the undiscovered were but a bit of an egoist, he would indulge in some narration of “himself and times,” whereby his obnubilated patronymic might transpire to the fullest content.