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umbratile, a. and n.|ˈʌmbrətaɪl, -ɪl|
[ad. L. umbrātil-is keeping in the shade, private, retired, etc., f. umbra umbra1. So It. umbratile, ombratile, Pg. umbratil, F. ombratile, † umbratile.]
A. adj.
1.
†a. Spent within doors. Obs.— 1
1592Bacon Confer. Pleasure (1870) 24 A health..that hath not ben softened by an vmbratill life still vnder the rooffe.
b. Carried on in retirement or seclusion; not public or practical.
1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxxix. 511 The same speech may be excellent in an umbratile Exercitation, which would be too pedanticall, and smelling of the Lampe in a matter of serious and weighty debate. 1840British Critic XXVIII. 370 Christianity..was not once that umbratile thing, that feeble exotic, shut up in churches, parsonages and parlours. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) 3 A time of peace and security tends to foster an umbratile and academic science.
c. Staying or living in the shade or within-doors; recluse, retiring.
1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 431/2 Umbratile spectators may inquire what ought to be done. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta II. 29 The third brother..was an umbratile young man, and very fanatical. 1898L. Johnson in Post Liminium (1911) 207 Octavius the ‘umbratile’, quiet man was content with a miniature immortality.
2. Of, belonging to, or resembling a shadow or shadows.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iii. iii, Shadows have their figure, motion, And their umbratil action, from the real Posture and motion of the body's act.
b. Of a shadowy nature; unsubstantial; unreal. Now rare or Obs. (Common in 17th c.)
1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 337 But this life that we live disjoyned from God is but a shadow, and umbratil imitation of that. Ibid. 433 A kind of an umbratil vitalitie that the soul imparts to the body in the enlivening of it. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 131 Body is opposed unto shadowes; and so a bodily inhabitation unto an umbratile. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 854 As themselves are juniors,..so are their effects..but slight, ludicrous and umbratil. a1706Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. p. xxvii, All we have of precious and worthy our solicitude in this umbratile and transitory passage. 1806Knox Corr. (1834) I. 290 As far as thought could proceed, without feeling,..the umbratile, without the real apprehension,—few men could outdo him.
†c. Serving as a token or type. Obs.—1
1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 199 The honor of being received at least as the umbratile Sign and Coming of the Son of Man.
3. Giving shade; shady.
1659Gayton Art Longevity 79 Under a Sycamore Which with umbratile leaves will let no Sun Hurt your Silk-gown. 1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell lxiii. (1883) 439 His hat was umbratile, as of the Pilgrim Fathers.
†4. Of colour: Shaded, dark. Obs.—1
1678Phil. Trans. XII. 949 Appearing sometimes of a more flourishing colour tending to Carnation; and sometimes more umbratile.
B. n. One who spends his time in the shade.
1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 248 Many thus are umbratiles in the booths, and give themselves almost to a perpetual slumber. |