English Dictionary

obnubilation

/ɒbnjuːbɪˈleɪʃən/

noun

The action of darkening or fact of being darkened, as with a cloud; obscuration. / (medicine, specifically) Obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculties.

The obnubilation of the sky made it difficult to see the stars.

意味（1）

The action of darkening or fact of being darkened, as with a cloud; obscuration.

Neither can the Moone be eclipſed but at her ful, and in her fartheſt poſture from the ſunne: then is ſhe proſtitute to obnubilation.

意味（2）

(medicine, specifically) Obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculties.

An hypochondriack obnubilation from wind and indigeſtion.

意味（3）

(rare, literally) A veiling with or concealment in clouds.

Homer, the father of the Poets, by these obnubilations, frequently rescues his heroes from the most imminent danger. Thus, in the third book of The Iliad, when Paris, defeated by Menelaus, is on the point of losing his life, Venus snatches him away in a fog: — // “Then, as once more he lifts the deadly dart, // In thirst of vengeance, at his rival’s heart, // The Queen of Love her fav’rite champion shrouds // (For Gods can all things) in a veil of clouds.”

意味（4）

Something that obscures or causes confoundment; an obfuscation.

Pound’s ugly invective about the “obnubilations” of Indian art.