obnubilation
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
obnubilation
- The action of darken or fact of being darkened, as with a cloud; obscuration. [1610]
- 1610, John Healey (tr.), St. Auguſtine, of the Citie of God: with the learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives, bk 3, ch. 15, pp. gbooks SmxnAAAAcAAJ, note e:
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- 1653, Edward Waterhouse, An humble apologie for learning and learned men, p. 175 ↗:
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- 1819, Felix MacDonogh, The Hermit in London II, p. 133:
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- 1951, Abraham Moses Klein (aut.), E.A. Popham and Z. Pollock (eds.), The Second Scroll (2000), gloss dalid (ר), p. gbooks iLglTK_NmbIC:
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- 1989, Charles Doyle, Richard Aldington: A Biography, ch. 11, p. gbooks 4GFaCwAAQBAJ:
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- 1610, John Healey (tr.), St. Auguſtine, of the Citie of God: with the learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives, bk 3, ch. 15, pp. gbooks SmxnAAAAcAAJ, note e:
- (medicine, specifically) Obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculty. [1753]
- 1753 Dec. 17th, John Rutty, A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies in The Life of Samuel Johnſon, LL.D. (1791), aut. James Boswell, vol. II, “1777. Ætat. 68.”, p. 155 ↗:
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- 1803, Thomas Beddoes, Hygëia III, essay ix, p. 198:
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- 1888 May, G.S. Hall (ed.), The American Journal of Psychology I, № 3, “Ueber die therapeutische Verwendung der Hypnose by Richard Schulz ↗” (review), p. 519 ↗:
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- 1892, H. Power and L.W. Sedgwick, The New Sydenham Society’s Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences IV, s.v. “Obnubilaʹtion ↗”:
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- 1960 Jun. 27th–29th, Henri Fischgold and Betty A. Schwartz, “A clinical, electroencephalographic and polygraphic study of sleep in the human adult” in the Ciba Foundation Symposium on “The Nature of Sleep”, eds. G.E.W. Wolstenholme and M. O’Connor, p. gbooks j2AEbu_1DLgC:
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- 1997 Jul., Juan F. Masa et al., “Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation and Not Oxygen May Prevent Overt Ventilatory Failure in Patients With Chest Wall Diseases ↗” in Chest CXII, № 1, Abstract, p. 207:
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- 1753 Dec. 17th, John Rutty, A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies in The Life of Samuel Johnſon, LL.D. (1791), aut. James Boswell, vol. II, “1777. Ætat. 68.”, p. 155 ↗:
- (rare, literally) A veiling with or concealment in cloud. [1814]
- 1814 Jan. 15th, “Foggiana” in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1814 (1815), p. gbooks a8EPAAAAQAAJ:
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- 1814 Jan. 15th, “Foggiana” in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1814 (1815), p. gbooks a8EPAAAAQAAJ:
- Something that obscure or causes confoundment; an obfuscation. [1999]
- 1999, Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay, Afterword, p. gbooks FR5aAAAAMAAJ:
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- 2009, Chris J. Ackerley, Watt, gbooks MZ4r35dRsg0C:
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- 2016, Roger Paulin, The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry, § 2.1.2, p. gbooks MKByCwAAQBAJ:
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- 1999, Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay, Afterword, p. gbooks FR5aAAAAMAAJ:
- French: obnubilation
- French: obnubilation
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