umbrated

English

Verb

umbrated

1. simple past and past participle of umbrate

Adjective

umbrated (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Adumbrated.
   • 1840, George Poulson, The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, in the East-Riding of the County of York: Including the Abbies of Meaux and Swine, With the Priories of Nunkeeling and Burstall, page 260:

     This window consists of three lights, with trefoil arches in their heads. There remained, in the seventeenth century, a shield of stained glass in this window, bearing a lion rampant umbrated, over all a bend gules, Sutton.

   • 1865, The Herald and Genealogist, page 96:

     He then introduces some fanciful remarks about arms being umbrated or shadowed, an idea apparently arising from their  […]

   • 1894, Samuel Tymms, Charles Harold Evelyn-White, East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk, page 373:

     3 dolphins bowed and umbrated—Caldicote.

Further reading

• 1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, on an original plan ... with ... engravings: Mixed sciences, page 600:

  And they are said to be umbrated or adumbrated, when they are simply shaded on the field without any difference of colour.

Anagrams

• brumated, drumbeat