1. To darken or obscure with clouds; becloud: a storm that obnubilated the sky.
2. To cause to be unable to think clearly; confuse: Superstition obnubilated their minds.
3. To make hard to understand or follow; obscure: an important idea that was obnubilated by poor writing.
[Latin obnūbilāre, obnūbilāt- : ob-, against, in the way of; see epi in Indo-European roots + nūbilāre, to become cloudy (from nūbilus, cloudy, from nūbēs, cloud).]
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
confuse, confound - mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
muddy - cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"
The usual, if unarticulated, thinking is that knowing occurs by the mind's getting its version of 20/20 vision--"the view from nowhere," with nothing allowed to obnubilate the mental looks.
La convinzione, schermata dalla propaganda, di riabilitare il passato perche generi la necessaria suggestione sulle presenti generazioni obnubilate dal mito della machina, della velocita, dell'organigramma tecnologico.