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Quotation dates: 1678
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Umbratile, adj. [e.m.E. vmbratill (1592), umbratile (1649), L. umbrātilis keeping in the shade, private.] Of a shadowy nature, vague, insubstantial. — 1678 Fountainhall Decis. I 11.
And … there were two kinds of treason, one juris communis … another juris statutorii, as theft in landed men, a fictitious and umbratile kind of treason and to speak strictly, no treason at all
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