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umbrageous, a.|ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs|
Also 6–8 umbragious, 7, 9 ombrageous (7 -ious).
[ad. F. ombrageux (OF. also -eus), f. ombrage (see umbrage n.); or directly f. umbrage n. + -ous.]
1. a. Forming or affording shade; shady.
1587A. Day Daphnis & Chloe (1890) 69 First ranne hee to the foot of a hie and umbragious rocke. 1614Gorges Lucan ii. 63 Where these vmbragious mountaines stand. 1675Evelyn Terra (1676) 93 Lastly, by shade Ground is render'd barren, and by the dripping of umbragious trees. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 149 Where the grove with leaves umbrageous bends, With forceful strength a branch the Heroe rends. 1790Phil. Trans. LXXX. 351 Their tops are so very thick and umbrageous as to prevent even a very heavy rain from reaching the ground underneath. 1826Scott Woodst. x, The towers of Woodstock arose high above the umbrageous shroud which the forest spread around the..mansion. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 99 A handsome umbrageous tree, with a smooth bark, and shining leaves. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 310 Oaks with their umbrageous foliage..belong to the forests of the North.
b. Abounding in shade; shaded by trees or the like; overshadowed.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xxii. 1619 Those past times..When as that woody kind, in our umbrageous wild,..In this their world of waste, the sovereign empire sway'd. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 81 A secure place of repose in a vmbragious Caue. 1666Harvey Morb. Angl. 215 Walk daily in a pleasant, airy, and umbragious Garden. 1742Gray Propertius iii. 3 Fast by th' umbrageous vale lull'd to repose, Where Aganippe warbles as it flows. 1774R. Cumberland in Westm. Mag. II. 148 No cooling Grottoes, no umbrageous Groves, To win the Graces, and allure the Loves. 1811Shelley St. Irvyne xi, The umbrageous loveliness of the surrounding country. 1846Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 13 It makes us shiver to think of these deep umbrageous recesses. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lvi, Everyone should wander at will about the green copses, and the umbrageous retreats.
c. Caused by thick foliage.
1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 54 The religious Mahometans chose to pray under old trees,..piously believing that the holy men of former times had prayed and meditated under their umbrageous shade. a1854J. Wilson in Casquet of Lit. (1896) V. 178/2 Dew and dreams dropping through their umbrageous twilight at eve or morn.
2. Of persons: Suspicious; jealous; apt or disposed to take offence.
α1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 169 The inhabitants,..partly by their forme of gouernment, whereby they are made vile, base and vmbragious, haue little valour or manhood left them. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox iii. Argt. 48 The King made jealous of the Queen, shee no less umbragious of him, and both for Iphigenes. 1758Warburton Div. Legat. Pref., Of which, doubtless, the Romans were very jealous,..though not so extravagantly umbragious as our Critic's hypothesis obliges him to suppose. 1768Hurd in Warburton Lett. (1809) 425 Both susceptible of high passions in love and friendship; but, of the two, the Italian more constant, and less umbrageous. 1846Grote Greece ii. vi. II. 503 The rural costume..which the Helot commonly wore, and the change of which exposed him to suspicion, if not to punishment, from his umbrageous masters. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. vi. 107 The people are idle, haughty, umbrageous, fiery, quarrelsome [etc.].
β1630Donne Serm. lv. (1640) 557 At the beginning some men were a little ombrageous, and startling at the name of the Fathers. 1803[? Sir L. Hanson] Hist. Acc. Orders Knighth. II. 306 Most punctilious with respect to forms and Ceremonies: and excessively ombrageous, with regard to the Non-observance of trivial points.
b. Of disposition or nature.
c1639Wotton Let. Sir. E. Bacon in Reliq. (1672) 430 But lest you should mistake, as some others have been apt to do here, in the present constitution of the court (which is very ombragious). 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox xii. 321 Let your rigour execute mee..all that your umbragious or Cholerick humour can suggest. 1667G. Digby Elvira i. i, What power meer appearances have had..to destroy, With an umbragious nature, all that Love Was ever able..To found and to establish.
†3. Obscure; dubious. Obs.
1635J. Reynolds God's Revenge iii. xiii. 256 That there was none other present but himselfe when his Master De Merson was murthered, it is umbragious, and leaves a..sting of suspition in their heads. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. II, Wks. (1711) 24 By umbragious Ways he nourished Discontentments in all Parts of the Country. 1651H. L'Estrange Answ. Mrq. Worcester 61 We blesse God for the light they had, though umbrageous and clouded, yet was it such as discovered the nakednesse and shame of the Church of Rome.
Hence umˈbrageously adv.; umˈbrageousness.
1639Drummond of Hawthornden Mag. Mirror Wks. (1711) 175 He had Intention to bring Novations into our Religion; tending *umbrageously, and under a Mask, to the Introduction of Popery. 1834Ainsworth Rookwood i. i, One tree..out⁓flings..its arms umbrageously.
1614Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. §3. 69 The exceeding *umbragiousnesse of this tree he compareth to the darke and shadowed life of man. 1755Johnson, Shadiness,..umbrageousness. 1823Examiner 106/2 Trees..spreading sideways with Asiatic grace and umbrageousness. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLI. 512 A face incapable of a blush, partly from the umbrageousness of the whiskers. 1871Daily News 28 July, The familiar umbrageousness of Croydon. |