obnubilate

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"obnubilate," and "adventitious."

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  1. To cloud or overcloud; obscure; darken. [Rare.] Your sly deceits dissimulation hides, Your false intent faire wordes obnubilate. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 135. As a black and thick cloud covers the sun, and intercepts his beams and lights, so doth this melancholy vapour obnubilate the mind. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 249.

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  • In some unlucky dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a _but_ of detraction; as if there were something yet so foul as did obnubilate even his brightest glory. —  Pearls of Thought
  • "obnubilate," and "adventitious." —  History of American Literature
 

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  1. from Late Latin obnubilatus, past participle of obnubilare, cover with clouds, cloud over, from Latin ob, before, over, + nubilus, cloudy: see nubilous.
 

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