a. rare. [ad. L. umbrātic-us staying in the shade, f. umbra UMBRA1. So Sp. and Pg. umbratico, It. ombratico, F. ombratique, † umbratique.]

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  1.  Shadowy, foreshadowing.

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a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm. (1683), II. xxvii. 386. By virtue wherof those … umbratick representations … did obtain their substance, validity and effect.

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  2.  Confined to the shade or to retirement; retired, secluded.

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1839.  De Quincey, in Tait’s Mag., VI. 364. The torpid dreams of what the Romans called an umbratic experience.

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