different between obscured vs obnubilate

English

Pronunciation

Verb

obscured

1. simple past tense and past participle of obscure

Adjective

obscured (comparative more obscured, superlative most obscured)

1. Made hidden, less visible, or dark.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hidden

Anagrams

• Dobrescu

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin obn?bil?tus, perfect passive participle of obn?bil? (“cover with clouds or fog”), from ob- +? n?bil? (“be cloudy”), from n?b?s (“cloud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newd?- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?nju?b?l?t/

Adjective

obnubilate (comparative more obnubilate, superlative most obnubilate)

1. (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
   • 1575, John Rolland (aut.), W. Gregor (ed.), Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venvs (1884), bk 1, ll. 244–251 (p. 23):

   • 1610, John Healey (tr.), S^t. Augu?tine, of the Citie of God, bk 19, ch. 4, p. 758:

   • 1630, John Taylor, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-poet, epigram 36, p. 266/1:

   • 1860, George William Bagby (aut., ed.), “Editor’s Table” in The Southern Literary Messenger XXXI (N.S. X), p. 74:

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 the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd edition, March 2004)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin obn?bil?, as above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?nju?b?le?t/

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
2. 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 the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd edition, March 2004)

Related terms

• obnubilation
• obnubilous

Italian

Verb

obnubilate

1. second-person plural present indicative of obnubilare
2. second-person plural imperative of obnubilare
3. feminine plural of obnubilato