obnubilated
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
obnubilate + -ed (suffix forming perfect participial adjectives)
Adjective
obnubilated (not comparable)
- (literally and figuratively) Obscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud.
- 1830, Robert Chambers, The Life of King James the First I, ch. ix, p. 246:
- James…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 Apr., George Raymond, “The Prince of Darkness” in Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine and Humorist LV, ed. T. Hook, № ccxx, p. 514:
- Pipkin…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.
- 1830, Robert Chambers, The Life of King James the First I, ch. ix, p. 246:
Related terms
- obnubilate (adjective)
- obnubilation
- obnubilous
Translations
References
- ‘Obnu·bilated ppl. a.’ s.v. “Obnubilate, v.” in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st edition), volume VII (O, P; 1909), § i (O, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray), page 25/3
- “obnubilated, adj.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd edition, March 2004)
Etymology 2
Regularly conjugated forms of obnubilate (verb).
Verb
obnubilated
- simple past and past participle of obnubilate
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:obnubilate.