EDNote: For the record, here's what the OED gives (~SB):

That cannot be cleared of clouds or mist, or (fig.) of obscurity; indistinct; inexplicable.

1903 Sat. Rev. 7 Feb. 169/1 This business of the avalanche is treated by the critics as something quite inenubilable. 1911 BEERBOHM Zuleika D. xii. 191 There is nothing in England to be matched with what lurks in the vapours of these meadows, and in the shadows of these spires

that mysterious, inenubilable spirit, spirit of Oxford.

On a related note, I recently came across a 1922 NYT or London Times blurb mentioning the exile of Aikhenvald and other intellectuals to Novaya Zemlya. I don't think I had heard before that the archipelago was part of their itinerary.

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