Even in the Latin Epigrams of 1634 there is (to say the least) a 'slighting' allusion to the Pope in the 'Umbra S.
By visio as used here, Hildegard refers to the general undefined light--the umbra viventis lucis, in which she saw her special visions.
Its name, which has been given me, is Shade of the living light (umbra viventis luminis).
His work is in manuscript, and entitled, "Umbra Humberti, hoc est historia memorabilis D.
How shall I that am vix umbratanti philosophi hope to please?
The barred mud-minnow of the prairies of the middle West (Umbra limi) often remains in dried sloughs and bog-holes, and has been sometimes plowed up alive.
Umbra pygmæa, a striped species, is found in the Eastern States and Umbra crameri in bogs and brooks along the Danube.
Sedentes in tenebris, et in umbra mortis, vinctos in mendicitate.
Durois advised me that the Kyng of Umbra had put two padres to death, viz.
He also tould me that yf I would write Mr. Eaton or Mr. Nealson, that he ment to send a man expres to Umbra this day.
He said the Kyng (or Tono) of Xaxma retorned for his cuntrey yisterday, and to morow the Tonos of Umbra and Goto have lycense to departe.
There came a man from Umbra about the quarrell of the Fingonians with Mr. Eaton, saying they swagered mightely because they thought the man would dye.
A cavelero of Umbra came and viseted me, geving me thankes for the kindnesse shewed to his kinsman, Sugian Dono, and brought me a Japan hargabus (or gun) for a present.
I sent Mr. Nelson to Umbra with the letter written to the king, and he carid 50 tais in plate bars and 10 tais in small plate with hym.
And so I gott Jubio Dono of Crates to write me a letter to the King of Umbra ut supra.
I went to Soyemon Dono to tell hym I marveled them ofUmbra used the scrivano (alius Mr. Wm.
Durois writes me that the Kyng of Umbra hath taken 2 padres presoners, both Japons, the one a Franciscan frire and the other a jesuist.
The Manes, it was supposed, descended into the infernal regions, the Anima ascended to the skies, and Umbra hovered about the tomb, seemingly unwilling to depart from the body.
I wrot a letter to the 2 bongews of Umbra to thank them for releeving our men cast away in the bark.
Oyen Dono being gon, Sugian Dono of Umbra came unto me (as from Tonomon Samma) and wished me to make good enformations against the Hollanders, wherin he would assist me, and made no dowbt but they would be banishid out of the cuntrey.
I had as lieve you tell me that Anima est Angelus hominis, est corpus Dei, as Entelechia; Lux est umbra Dei, as actus perspicui.
Now to come to the definition of Light, in which the Author is also unsatisfied with the School of Aristotle, he saith, It satisfieth him no more to tell him that Lux est actus perspicui, than if you should tell him that it is umbra Dei.
Umbra Recta and Umbra Versa were scales on the back of the astrolabe used for computing the altitudes of heavenly bodies from the height and shadows of objects.
Occidens,' and passing through the center, will cut the scale of Umbra Versa between the 6th and 7th points.
The umbra recta was used where the angle of elevation of an object was greater than 45 deg.
It is not always the case that each individual umbra has a penumbra all to itself, for several spots are occasionally included in one common penumbra.
Close to the best known author Umbra sits, The constant index to old Button's wits, 'Who's here?
The umbra is the darker central portion, the funnel of the whirling cyclone, and the penumbra is composed of the outspreading gases, and is less dark than the umbra.
Each spot is quite sharply divided into an umbra and a penumbra.
The umbra of a sun-spot is anywhere from a few hundred miles to fifty thousand miles in diameter, frequently exceeding the earth in size, while the penumbra occasionally reaches a diameter of two hundred thousand miles.
Adventus Christi unus quidem in Humilitate completus est, alius vero speratur in Gloria: Et hic primus Adventus in Carne, mystico quodam Sermone, in Scripturis sanctis umbra ejus appellatur.
This was easier said than done, for the back of the dogcart was piled with Gladstone bags, fishing rods, and hat-boxes; but Umbra was ready to oblige.
Around the umbra is an enveloping shaded cone with its vertices directly towards the sun.
A central eclipse is total when the umbra actually reaches the earth; annular when it does not.
First, from the values of the latter at a given moment to determine the point, if any, at which the shadow-axis intersects the surface of the earth, and the respective outlines of the umbra and penumbra on that surface.
I very much fear if my little work (nugae meae) is compared with the mystical and deeply learned Sigilli of the Nolan, or with the Umbra artificiosa of Dicson, it may bring more infamy to its author than utility to the reader.
Alexander Dicson's De Umbra rationis et iudicii, sive de memoriae virtute Prosopopoeia, dedicated to the Earl of Leicester (1583).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "umbra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apparition; gloom; shade; shadow; silhouette; specter; spirit; umbra; umbrage
