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to cloud; to obfuscate; to make less clear
1652The Anatomy of MelancholyAnd from these crudities, windy vapours ascend up to the brain which trouble the imagination, and cause fear, sorrow, dullness, heaviness, many terrible conceits and chimeras, as Lemnius well observes, 'as black and thick cloud covers the sun, and intercepts his beams and light, so doth this melancholy vapour obnubilate the mind, enforce it to many absurd thoughts and imaginations,' and compel good, wise, honest, discreet men (arising to the brain from the lower parts, 'as smoke out of a chimney') to dote, speak, and do that which becomes them not, their persons, callings, wisdoms.1820The Monastery'Now, by my knighthood,' answered Sir Piercie, 'your lovely faculties either of mind or body are, O my most fair Discretion, obnubilated by some strange hallucination.'1977The Mauritius Command'It is the pity of the world, Dr McAdam, to see a man of your parts obnubilate his mind with the juice of the grape.'Labels: Patrick O'Brian, Robert Burton, Sir Walter Scott
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