▪ I. † umbrate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. umbrāt-us, pa. pple. of umbrāre: see next.]
1. Shady; umbrageous.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. Prol. 40 The vmbrate treis that Tytan about wappit War portrait..Be goldin bemis. |
2. Her. = umbrated a.
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 25 b, But yet in my iudgement, they myghte alwayes (with conuenient differences) haue borne the same whole, and not vmbrate. |
▪ II. † umbrate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. umbrāre (whence It. ombrare, F. ombrer), f. umbra umbra1. Cf. the earlier adumbrate, obumbrate.]
1. trans. To shadow. Also fig.
| 1623 Cockeram, Vmbrate, to shadow. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §42 (1810) 48 Instead of lux fiat, it may be verified that they are umbrated thereby. |
2. To adumbrate, indicate.
| 1675 J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal ii. viii. 84 The Gospel..exhibits to us the Substance of the Law's Types; wherein the things pertaining to the Person, Office, and Kingdom, of the Messias, were umbrated. |