encloudv.
/ɛnˈklaʊd/ transitive. To surround with or envelop in a cloud; to overshadow, darken. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > darken (as) by clouds
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obnubilate1583
overclouda1586
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becloud1606
obumbilatea1711
overswarth1822
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > cloud or overcast [verb (transitive)] > envelop in cloud
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1602 F. Davison Poet. Rapsody (1611) 25 Darknesse oft that light incloudes.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God i. xxi. 34 Mortall men..are most commonly enclowded in a mist of ignorance and errour.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 208 In their thicke breathes..shall we be enclowded . View more context for this quotation
1844 A. B. Welby Poems (1867) 11 When death's shadows my bosom encloud.
Derivatives
enˈclouded adj.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > covered in cloud
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1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K3 The heauens on euerie side enclowded bee.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 126 Now for the secret and enclouded sense.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 117 Stars are enclowded oftentimes.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. ix. iii. 141 Mark the advantage of this enclouded state.
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