单词 | obumbrate |
释义 | † obumbrateadj. Obsolete. 1. Chiefly Scottish. Overshadowed, darkened. Also figurative. Also occasionally as past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed obumbrate?a1425 adumbered1596 overshadowed1603 shaded1672 overhung1845 beshaded1862 beshadowed- ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 132 (MED) Somtyme it [sc. a cataract] is subtile & moble, & þan semeþ þingez obumbrate, i. shadowed [L. obumbrate], as if a cloþ were upon þe eie. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 66 Wod and forest obumbrat with thar bewis. 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Aaiiv In some obumbrate thicket let vs dwell. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 42 To haue Mecenas praise This light obumbrat, Arthur courts the North. a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1849) VIII. xx Till this great light, which doth obombrat ly, Shew forth the way. 2. Zoology. Concealed under some overhanging part, as the abdomen in some spiders. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > of or belonging to Araneida > of abdomen: concealed under overhanging part obumbrate1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 351 Abdomen..Obumbrate, when it is overshadowed by the trunk and concealed under it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2021). obumbratev. Now rare. 1. transitive. To overshadow; to shade, darken; to obscure. (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > intercept or cut off (light) [verb (transitive)] > overshadow beshadea1000 overshadowOE beshadowc1320 shadowc1384 obumber?1440 obumbrate1531 overdrip1587 overshade1594 inumbrate1623 umbrate1623 overgloom1796 adumbrate1834 sky1840 1531 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 181 Whome the holy goost did obumbrate or shadowe..with his presence & grace. c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 84 Quhair..monie seimlie frondise trie preclair Obumbrat all this situation rair. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 432 To obumbrate the true light of the Gospell. 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 29 Aspiring Ramparts which obumbrate the Adriatique Sea. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. xvi. 431 Madam Diana having taken a trip to the Antipodes, and left our mountains obumbrated, and our vallies obscured. a1778 T. Gent Life T. Gent 192 An action that for awhile seemed to obumbrate the glories of Cæsar. 1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 70 That awful wig which..accompanies Dr. Parr..that portentous head which is thus formidably obumbrated. 1912 Brickbuilder Dec. 311/2 Both porticoes are..charmingly obumbrated by trees, shrubs, flowers, and vines. 1985 D. Gascoyne Further Frontier in Sel. Poems (1994) The end Of afternoon approaches, the tenth month Is almost here, further to obumbrate A land once white with dawn. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)] > obscurely obumbrate1632 to figure out1721 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 174 More cleare then the force of policie can obumbrate their wicked deuices. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 556 The promises and denunciations..obumbrated a future state of rewards and punishments. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 42 I rather take her to be obscurely obumbrated as the Ilia nimium querens. 1852 Notes & Queries 20 Mar. 279/1 The writer's..notion, that the Hebrew word Cumi is in some way obumbrated in his patronymic Cuming. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > made dark or gloomy sullied1571 obumbrated1592 sombred1873 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 3v My eyes before vsed to such obumbrated darkenes. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. ci. 94 The countenances..had begun to be a little obumbrated. 1840 G. T Strong Jrnl. 14 Nov. in V. B. Lawrence Strong on Music (1988) I. ii. 87 It's such a clarifier of one's intellect when in an obumbrated state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425v.1531 |
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