I get this "A Word A Day" email, and the one this morning was "obnubilate," which means to darken over or cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
As every work of man's or of nature's hand universally contains within itself the elements of its own destruction (or if that term be not agreeable to the Philosopher, of its own dissolution), so every mind contains that which on some one point is certain to thwart and obnubilate the healthy exercise of that reason for which it may have been celebrated, when directed to all things else. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852] Reference
"obnubilate," and "adventitious.". From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
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