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† ˈshadowish, a. Obs.
Also 6 shadowysshe, shaddoish, shadowishe.
[f. shadow n. + -ish.]
1. Characterized by shadow, shady.
1530Palsgr. 323/1 Shadowysshe, vmbrageux. 1568Turner Herbal iii. 66 Sanicle..groweth commonlye in colde and shadoish woddes and hedges.
2. Of the nature of or resembling shadow.
1642J. Eaton Honey-c. Free Justif. 278 As the walls of the house cannot of their own nature but cast forth all day long a shadowish darkness.
b. transf. and fig. Unsubstantial, fleeting; figurative, mystical.
Very common in the 16th and 17th c.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 8 Euen thys is it, to make a shadowishe God, to driue farre away the true God whome we ought to feare and worshyp. 1621Three Quest. Answ. Fourth Commandment 30 Take heed this doctrine bee not rather shadowish then substantiall. 1685Bunyan Seventh-day Sabbath iv, The nature of that law is moral, but the..circumstances thereunto belonging are shadowish and figurative.
Hence † ˈshadowishly adv., indistinctly. rare—1.
1681Glanvill Sadducismus i. (1682) 155 A certain faculty in the soul, which, in some manner, though very shadowishly, answers to that power in God of creating Matter. |