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† umˈbratical, a. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Remaining in retirement or seclusion.
1636B. Jonson Discov. Wks. (1641) 94 So I can see whole volumes dispatch'd by the umbraticall Doctors on all sides. 1656Collop Poesis Rediv. 18 On the Umbraticall Doctors on the Romish party.
2. Serving as a shadow or imperfect representation of something.
1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 219 If all umbraticall rites be Iudaicall, and therefore unlawfull, then all religious significant Ceremonies are Iewish and unlawfull. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 333 Whose service was altogether umbraticall and typical, shadowing and representing heavenly things. 1683Case of Inf.-Baptism 24 The purging and cleansing Virtue in their Blood..was also but a faint and umbratical resemblance of the more noble and efficacious cleansing Virtue of his Blood.
3. Serving as a disguise or cloak.
1662Hibbert Body Div. ii. 122 Ye have learned..not to be guided by the ostentation or umbratical shews of any plausible tongue.
Hence † umˈbratically adv. Obs.
1683Case of Inf.-Baptism 25 It never did Umbratically initiate Believers, or Umbratically, and in shew and Similitude only, confirm the Covenant. |