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nubilous, a. Now rare.|ˈnjuːbɪləs|
Also 6 Sc. nubilus, -elus.
[ad. late L. nūbilōs-us, or f. L. nūbilus, f. nūbēs cloud. Cf. It., Sp., and Pg. nubiloso, F. nubileux.]
1. a. Cloudy, foggy, misty. b. = nebulous 2.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 526 And all the lift baith dirk and nubelus, Perturbit wes with cloudis mervelus. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 139 The air was nubilus and donk. 1656Blount Glossogr., Nubilous, full of clouds, cloudy, stormy, tempestuous. 1671R. Bohun Wind 223 The radiant, sanguine, pallid, nubilous, or other Appearances of the Sun. 1739E. Carter tr. Algarotti Newton's Theory (1742) I. 164 Some nubilous Stars, on being viewed with a Telescope, appear to be a Cluster of innumerable other Stars. 1820Examiner 634/1 A nubilous atmosphere. 1823Ibid. 186/2 A blue and nubilous sky.
2. fig. Obscure, indefinite.
1533Bellenden Livy iii. xiv. (S.T.S.) I. 302 To mak þe mater..sa dirk and nubilus, þat na thing salbe sene clerelie in it quhat suld be done. 1817T. L. Peacock Melincourt xxxi, Pointing out innumerable images of singularly nubilous beauty. 1861N. Brit. Rev. Nov. 382 The mass of the people..entertained the most vague and nubilous notions with regard to the state of the soul after death. |