obnubilated

obnubilated

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪtɪd/

Etymology 1

obnubilate +‎ -ed (suffix forming perfect participial adjectives)

Adjective

obnubilated (not comparable)

1. (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.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

     Do not despair, Mr. Graves. Some day the clouds will roll away, and the sun, so long obnubilated, burst forth, for you, Mr. Graves, at last.

Related terms

• obnubilate (adjective)
• obnubilation
• obnubilous

Translations

obscured, dimmed, or hidden with a cloud

Portuguese: obnubilado

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

1. simple past tense and past participle of obnubilate
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:obnubilate.