† umbratilousadj.
Obsolete.
Shadowy, unreal; faint.
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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
1637 G. Ironside Seven Questions Sabbath To Rdr. sig. Biijv Least thou shouldst perhaps think I affected a Sciomachy or Umbratilous skirmish.
1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning iii. iv. 165 The handling of Finall Causes in the Physiques..hath given men occasion to rest satisfied in such specious, and umbratilous Causes.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 273 An humane embryo..without sexual discrimination, onely an umbratilous figuration of the microcosme.
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