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▪ I. † ˈnubilate, ppl. a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. pa. pple. of L. nūbilāre: see next.]
Clouded.
c1510Barclay Mirr. of Gd. Manners (1570) B v, O howe oft hath hid truth and simple veritie Lurked vnder ymage of falshood nubilate.
▪ II. nubilate, v.|ˈnjuːbɪleɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. nūbilāre, f. nūbila (neut. pl.), f. nūbēs cloud.]
trans. To cloud; to obscure; to render less clear or transparent.
a1691Aubrey Wilts. (MS. Royal Soc.) lf. 100 (Halliw.), About the beginning of March, 1660, I bought..a Turkey⁓stone ring; it was then wholly serene; toward the end of the moneth it began to be nubilated. 1730Bailey (folio), To Nubilate, to make cloudy. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XI. 646 Reinhard's [perspicuity], strong as it is, has been somewhat nubilated in the school of Kant.
Hence nubiˈlation, cloudiness. rare—1.
1874Coues Birds N.W. 613 Various degrees of this dusky nubilation approach in some specimens nearly to the uniform dusky below characterized. |