单词 | umbratile |
释义 | umbratileadj.n. A. adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting house > of life: spent indoors umbratile1592 1592 F. Bacon Conf. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective] sundereOE privyc1300 close1393 private1472 soleinc1475 secret1528 retired1595 implicit1610 cabinet1611 underhanda1616 closet1639 umbratile1640 closeteda1649 curtain1661 recluse1673 snug1710 pocket1804 entre nous1806 underground1820 sub rosa1824 esoterical1850 esoteric1876 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. 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. 1840 Brit. Critic XXVIII. 370 Christianity..was not once that umbratile thing, that feeble exotic, shut up in churches, parsonages and parlours. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 67 A time of peace and security inevitably tends to foster an umbratile and academic science. c. Staying or living in the shade or within-doors; recluse, retiring. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] > retired or secluded (of person) recluse?c1225 private1585 shadya1586 retired1590 umbraticala1637 sequestered1643 reclusive1749 umbratile1850 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 431/2 Umbratile spectators may inquire what ought to be done. 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta II. 29 The third brother..was an umbratile young man, and very fanatical. 1898 L. Johnson in Post Liminium (1911) 207 Octavius the ‘umbratile’, quiet man was content with a miniature immortality. 2. a. Of, belonging to, or resembling a shadow or shadows. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > of or relating to or resembling a shadow shadowly1434 umbratilea1637 shadowish1642 a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iii. iv. 119 in Wks. (1640) III Shadowes have their figure, motion And their umbratile action from the reall Posture, and motion of the bodies act. b. Of a shadowy nature; unsubstantial; unreal. Now rare or Obsolete. (Common in 17th cent.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > unsubstantial or merely apparent shadowy1374 phantom?c1450 shadowish1561 dreamish1563 fleshlessa1592 dreamya1594 shadowed1597 unreal1605 phantasmatic1607 dreamlike1615 umbratilous1637 phantasmatical1642 umbratile1647 moonshine1668 phantomical1687 visionary1697 faerie1767 filmlike1804 phantasmal1805 spectral1816 moonshiny1821 phantomatica1834 parheliacal1852 phantomic1878 translunar1927 celluloid1928 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 337 But this life that we live disjoyned from God is but a shadow, and umbratil imitation of that. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 433 A kind of an umbratil vitalitie that the soul imparts to the body in the enlivening of it. 1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 131 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity Body is opposed unto shadowes; and so a bodily inhabitation unto an umbratile. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 854 As themselves are Juniors..so are their Effects..but Slight, Ludicrous, and Umbratil. a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. Pref. p. xxvii All we have of precious and worthy our solicitude in this umbratile and transitory passage. 1806 Knox Corr. (1834) I. 290 As far as thought could proceed, without feeling,..the umbratile, without the real apprehension,—few men could outdo him. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [adjective] figurative1398 characteristical1591 typic1610 typical1612 characterical?c1622 characteristic1647 umbratile1665 typeful1889 typal1893 1665 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (ed. 2) 199 The honor of being received at least as the umbratile Sign and Coming of the Son of Man. 3. Giving shade; shady. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade umbrosea1425 shadowing1552 umbrate?1553 shadeful1563 shady1579 shadinga1586 umbrageous1587 shadowy1607 umbriferous1616 umbratile1659 umbracious1839 adumbral1845 umbering1872 1659 E. Gayton Art Longevity 79 Under a Sycamore Which with umbratile leaves will let no Sun Hurt your Silk-gown. 1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) lxiii. 439 His hat was umbratile, as of the Pilgrim Fathers. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > dark wana1000 swartOE darkOE under-dark1382 sad1415 swartish1483 sable?a1513 dark-coloured?1523 swarth?1527 fuskish1563 swarty1572 saturnine1581 sable-suiteda1592 sable visaged1608 gloomy1632 sable-vested1667 fuscous1671 umbratile1678 sable-hooded1770 gangrenous1794 burnt1897 bead-dark1937 1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 949 Appearing sometimes of a more flourishing colour tending to Carnation; and sometimes more umbratile. B. n. One who spends his time in the shade. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > person anchorite?1614 solitarian1655 retirer1678 solitaire1716 recluse1751 solitarya1763 hermit1799 troglodyte1854 umbratile1888 cop-out1969 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 248 Many thus are umbratiles in the booths, and give themselves almost to a perpetual slumber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1592 |
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