Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving a faint shadow, or showing a slight resemblance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Giving a
faint shadow , or slightresemblance ; shadowing forth.
Etymologies
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Latin adumbrans, present participle of adumbrare.
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Examples
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Unctionis ritu peracto, abiturientes, ne forte a maritis in lectis desiderantur, vel per incantationem somnum, aurem nimirum vellicando dextra manu prius praedicto unguine illita, conciliant maritis ex quo non facile possunt excitari; vel daemones personas quasdam dormientibus adumbrant, quas, si contigeret expergisci, suas uxores esse putarent; vel interea alius daemon in forma succubi ad latus maritorum adjungitur qui loco uxoris est ....
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Honorum vocabula adumbrant fi - glacT ATT c pn I A c vel T A
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1793
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