# obnubilate
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin obnūbilātus, perfect passive participle of obnūbilō (“cover with clouds or fog”), from ob- +‎ nūbilō (“be cloudy”), from nūbēs (“cloud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒbˈnjuːbɪlət/

#### Adjective

obnubilate (comparative more obnubilate, superlative most obnubilate)
* (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
** 1575, John Rolland, edited by W. Gregor, Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venvs, published 1884, bk 1, ll. 244-251 (p. 23):[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.
** 1610, John Healey, transl., St. Auguſtine, of the Citie of God, bk 19, ch. 4, p. 758: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?
** 1630, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-poet, John Taylor, epigram 36, p. 266/1:Mans vnderstanding’s so obnubilate, That when thereon I doe excogitate, Intrinsicall and querimonious paines Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines.
** 1860, George William Bagby (aut., ed.), “Editor’s Table” in The Southern Literary Messenger XXXI (N.S. X), p. 74:
    Here is the sample of [Whitman’s] obnubilate, incoherent, convulsive flub-drub.

##### Translations
#### References

* “† Obnu·bilate, ppl. a.” 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
* “obnubilate, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin obnūbilō, as above.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪt/

#### Verb

obnubilate (third-person singular simple present obnubilates, present participle obnubilating, simple past and past participle obnubilated)
* (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
** 1832, “Miscellaneous”, in Biblical Repertory and Theological Review, volume IV, page 143: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.
* To make cloudy.

##### Derived terms

* obnubilated (adjective)

#### References

* “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
* “obnubilate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Related terms

* obnubilation
* obnubilous

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

obnubilate
* inflection of obnubilare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

obnubilate f pl
* feminine plural of obnubilato

## Spanish
### Verb

obnubilate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of obnubilar combined with te