a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Remaining in retirement or seclusion.
1636. B. Jonson, Discov., Wks. (1641), 94. So I can see whole volumes dispatch’d by the umbraticall Doctors on all sides.
1656. Collop, Poesis Rediv., 18. On the Umbraticall Doctors on the Romish party.
2. Serving as a shadow or imperfect representation of something.
1633. Ames, Agst. Cerem., II. 219. If all umbraticall rites be Iudaicall, and therefore unlawfull, then all religious significant Ceremonies are Iewish and unlawfull.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, N. T., 333. Whose service was altogether umbraticall and typical, shadowing and representing heavenly things.
1683. Case of Inf.-Baptism, 24. The purging and cleansing Virtue in their Blood … was also but a faint and umbratical resemblance of the more noble and efficacious cleansing Virtue of his Blood.
3. Serving as a disguise or cloak.
1662. Hibbert, Body Div., II. 122. Ye have learned … not to be guided by the ostentation or umbratical shews of any plausible tongue.
Hence † Umbratically adv. Obs.
1683. Case of Inf.-Baptism, 25. It never did Umbratically initiate Believers, or Umbratically, and in shew and Similitude only, confirm the Covenant.
