obnubilate

Adjective

obnubilate (comparative more obnubilate, superlative most obnubilate)

1. (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
   • [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...1575, John Rolland, edited by W. Gregor, Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venvs, published 1884, bk 1, ll. 244-251 (p. 23)
   • 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?1610, John Healey, transl., St. Auguſtine, of the Citie of God, bk 19, ch. 4, p. 758

Verb

UK/ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪt/

obnubilate (third-person singular simple present obnubilates, present participle obnubilating, simple past and past participle obnubilated)

1. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
   • 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.1832, “Miscellaneous”, in Biblical Repertory and Theological Review, volume IV, page 143
2. To make cloudy.