adumbrate

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To adumbrate--i.e., make a picture of--the orthodox doctrine, the sun must be heavenly body, the light heavenly body, the heat heavenly body; and yet, not three heavenly bodies, but one heavenly body.

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  1. transitive verb To give a sketchy outline of.
  2. transitive verb To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow.
  3. transitive verb To disclose partially or guardedly.
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  • I have no great desire to enumerate various others who find the suggestions of Hansen and the Hadley Centre to be hyperbolic, so I hope the above is sufficient to adumbrate my dispute with your claim of unanimity. —  RealClimate
  • Getting Started In Forex Action Six - every Forex trader, even ones not accepting started in Forex trading, should accept a reasonable compassionate of absorption rates, all-embracing barter and the abridgement in adjustment to adumbrate movements in the accepted market. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Songs in Bollywood are almost an adumbrate to story telling. —  NAACHGAANA
  • We do not adumbrate the approaching so whatever appear will be, will be. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • To adumbrate--i.e., make a picture of--the orthodox doctrine, the sun must be heavenly body, the light heavenly body, the heat heavenly body; and yet, not three heavenly bodies, but one heavenly body. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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  1. Latin adumbrāre, adumbrāt-, to represent in outline : ad-, ad- + umbra, shadow.

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  1. from Latin adumbratus, past participle of adumbrare, cast a shadow over; in painting, to represent an object with due mingling of light and shadow, also represent in outline; from ad, to, + umbra, shadow.
 

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