Meaning of umbratilous | Babel Free

Definitions

Shadowy; faint; secluded; indistinct; vague; latent; indeterminate.

obsolete, rare

Examples

“For the handling of Final Causes the Physicks, hath intercepted, and banisht the enquiry of Physical causes; and hath given men occasion to rest⟳ satisfied in such specious, and umbratilous Causes; and not thorowly to urge⟳ and press⟳ the enquiry of real and truly Physical Causes.”

“[…] and should doubtless do our best, through horrid yells and tintinnabulations, towards getting up a tremendous counter-irritation upon the earth that should tell⟳ mightily on the nerves of this umbratilous tiger in the heavens.”

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