umbratile

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"This sweet flower," said Evelyn, "borne on a branch set with thorns and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses."

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  1. Being in the shade or in retirement; secluded. Health that hath not been softened by an umbratile life still under the roof. Bacon. We must not … play the geometrician with our soul, as we may with lines and figures, and things obnoxious to our senses, in this umbratile state and dependence. Evelyn, True Religion, I. 56.
  2. Pertaining to or resembling a shadow or shadows; shadowy. Shadows have their figure, motion, And their umbratile action from the real Posture and motion of the body's act. B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iii. 3.
  3. Unreal; unsubstantial. This life that we live disjoyned from God is but a shadow and umbratil imitation of that. Dr. H. More, Philos. Poems, p. 337, notes.

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  • "This sweet flower," said Evelyn, "borne on a branch set with thorns and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses." —  The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • Evelyn, "borne on a branch set with thorns and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses." —  The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
 

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  1. from Latin umbratilis, remaining in the shade, retired, from umbra, shade: see umbra.
 

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