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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare, obsolete) Shadowy; faint; secluded; indistinct; vague; latent; indeterminate..
For the handling of Final Causes the Physicks, hath intercepted, and banisht the enquiry of Physical causes; and hath given men occasion to rest satisfied in such specious, and umbratilous Causes; and not thorowly to urge and press the enquiry of real and truly Physical Causes.
[…] and should doubtless do our best, through horrid yells and tintinnabulations, towards getting up a tremendous counter-irritation upon the earth that should tell mightily on the nerves of this umbratilous tiger in the heavens.
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Umbratilous means (rare, obsolete) Shadowy; faint; secluded; indistinct; vague; latent; indeterminate..
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For the handling of Final Causes the Physicks, hath intercepted, and banisht the enquiry of Physical causes; and hath given men occasion to rest satisfied in such specious, and umbratilous Causes; and not thorowly to urge and press the enquiry of real and truly Physical Causes.
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