enubilate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ēnūbilātus, past participle of ēnūbilāre (“to enubilate”), from ē- (“out”) + nūbila (“clouds”), from nūbilis (“cloudy”), nūbēs (“cloud”).
Verb edit
enubilate (third-person singular simple present enubilates, present participle enubilating, simple past and past participle enubilated)
- (rare, transitive) To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
- 1903, “Saturday Reviews”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Maeterlinck is gradually enubilating himself from those enchanted mists in which first he strayed.
References edit
- “enubilate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.