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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of encloud.

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Examples

  • The enclouded air vibrated with noises made by hidden colossal things.

    The Little Regiment 1896

  • Moreover, there is a response in human nature to this idea that sins are forgiven; we notice that people suffer under a consciousness of wrong-doing, and that when they shake themselves clear of their past, and free themselves from the shackling fetters of remorse, they go forward with glad heart and sunlit eyes, though erstwhile enclouded by darkness.

    Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • The enclouded air vibrated with noises made by hidden colossal things.

    The Little Regiment Stephen Crane 1885

  • The fact was, that fevers and the influence of a vertical sun had reduced my system so, that inflammation, caught by sleeping on the ground during this rainy season, attacked my eyes, brought on an almost total blindness, and rendered every object before me enclouded as by a misty veil.

    What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

  • But of late the populace of _France_ are not so perfectly enclouded with Superstition, and if a young Author can pretend to Divine, I think it is easy to foresee that the papal Power will in a very short space be considerably lessen'd if not in a great measure disregarded in that Kingdom, by the intestine Jarrs and Discords of their Parties for Religion, and the Desultory Judgments of the most considerable

    A Vindication of the Press Daniel Defoe 1696

  • _I am sorry that you had the Misfortune ever to see me, and the more for that in vain I seek your Relief; it is not in my Power to forward either your Happiness or my own, which I confess I should think compleat, if my mercenary Father would consent to my Espousals; but it is so far from this, that I am to see for the future, so that the Lilly you admire now droops its Head, and the whole Vale's enclouded at my sorrowful Fate; I would willingly accompany the Briar to the Mountains.

    Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

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