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单词 umbratile
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umbratileadj.n.

/ˈʌmbrətʌɪl//ˈʌmbrətɪl/
Etymology: < Latin umbrātilis keeping in the shade, private, retired, etc., < umbra umbra n.1 So Italian umbratile, ombratile, Portuguese umbratil, French ombratile, †umbratile.
A. adj.
1.
a. Spent within doors. Obsolete. rare.
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.
c. Serving as a token or type. Obsolete. rare.
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.
4. Of colour: Shaded, dark. Obsolete. rare.
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).
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