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▪ I. obumbrate, a. rare.|ɒˈbʌmbrət| [ad. L. obumbrāt-us, pa. pple. of obumbrāre to overshadow: see next.] †a. Overshadowed, darkened. Obs. b. Entom. Concealed under some overhanging part, as the abdomen in some spiders.
1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 66 Wod and forest obumbrat with thar bewis. 1599R. Linche Fount. Anc. Fict. A a ij, In some obumbrate thicket let us dwell. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 42 To haue Mecenas praise This light obumbrat, Arthur courts the North. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 351 Abdomen..Obumbrate, when it is overshadowed by the trunk and concealed under it. ▪ II. obumbrate, v. Now rare.|ɒˈbʌmbreɪt| [f. L. obumbrāt-, ppl. stem of obumbrā-re to overshadow, to shade, f. ob- (ob- 1 c) + umbrā-re to shade.] 1. trans. To overshadow; to shade, darken; to obscure. lit. and fig.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 181 Whome the holy goost did obumbrate or shadowe..with his presence and grace. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 432 To obumbrate the true light of the Gospell. 1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 29 Aspiring Ramparts which obumbrate the Adriatique Sea. 1755Smollett Quix. ii. iv. xvi, Madam Diana having taken a trip to the Antipodes, and left our mountains obumbrated, and our vallies obscured. a1778T. Gent Life 192 An action that for a while seemed to obumbrate the glories of Caesar. 1834Southey Doctor v. (1862) 17 That awful wig which accompanies Dr. Parr..that portentous head which is thus formidably obumbrated. ¶2. Misused for adumbrate, to shadow forth.
1632Lithgow Trav. v. 174 More cleare then the force of policie can obumbrate their wicked deuices. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 556 The promises and denunciations..obumbrated a future state of rewards and punishments. 1824Steward in Blackw. Mag. XV. 42, I rather take her to be obscurely obumbrated as the Ilia nimium querens. Hence obˈumbrated ppl. a., overclouded.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 3 My eyes before used to such obumbrated darkenes. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. IV. xcii, Their countenances had begun to be a little obumbrated. |